in futuro
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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What! the schoolmaster's son, an usher, a curate in futuro, with perhaps 80l. or 100l. a year to live upon!
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.
All laws should be therefore made to commence in futuro, and be notified before their commencement; which is implied in the term "prescribed."
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir
It would not enrich the plaintiff in presenti, nor would it in futuro go to his heirs, or answer to pay his debts.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel
Three of the judges of the King's Bench held, that the action could not be maintained, because, among other objections, "it was not any matter of profit, either in presenti, or in futuro."
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel
The idea that a Dramatic Author of any standing would submit his work to such a tribunal, even with the dazzling prospect of a Matinée in futuro, is too refreshing!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 by Various
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