ab initio

Meaning

Adverb

• From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force. http://karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in/hcklibrary/PDF/Blacks%20Law%206th%20Edition%20-%20SecA.pdf Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition (1990) Ab initio: Lat. From the beginning; from the first act; from the inception. An agreement is said to be "void ab initio" if it has at no time had any
• Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions.
• Taken with no prior qualifications.

Origin

• From Latin ab ("from") + initiō, ablative singular of initium.