locus standi en · NOUN
Etymology
Latin; short for locus standi in iudicio ‘standing position in court’. Latin Locus denotes a location, while standi is the gerund form of the verb stare, meaning to stand.
Meanings
- (uncountable) A right to appear in a court of law; legal standing.
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(uncountable) Acknowledged position or status.
The other young man, because his host, Sir John Marraby, was not yet on the scene, had no locus standi, and […] had to be ignored.
1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
Translations (5)
es legitimación procesal (legal standing) · id kedudukan hukum (legal standing) · de Klagebefugnis (legal standing) · it legittimazione processuale (legal standing) · de Prozessführungsbefugnis (legal standing)