Loosely, 'even more so' or 'with even stronger reason'.
An argumentum a contrario is an 'argument from the contrary', an argument or proof by contrast or direct opposite.Ī long time ago. Equally a pedibus usque ad caput.Įquivalent to 'on the contrary' or 'au contraire'. In law, can refer to the obsolete cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos maxim of property ownership ('for whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to the sky and down to the depths').įrom top to bottom all the way through. Or 'from heaven all the way to the center of the earth'.
This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (benepl?cito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure).
