ipsissima verba en · X
Etymology
From Latin ipsissima verba (“the very words”).
Meanings
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The actual words (spoken or transcribed).
"The record in the magistrate's court does not purport to reproduce the ipsissima verba of the witness; it does not give questions and answers in the exact words in which the question was put and the answer made; it, at best, gives no more than a summary...."
1941, Engelbrecht v Nieuwoudt | CPD 54 at 55: