desuetude, tip one's hand, de jure vs de facto

The Desuetude of Howard Nemerov - Cosmoetica

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How close is that? Cook lets out a laugh and said he didn’t accidentally tip his hand. The company, he said, is closer to announcing a new product than it was at the end of January, yesterday or ten minutes ago. Not much help.

1. 「常住人口」指在所查戶內經常共同生活或營共同事業之人口（de jure population）。「現在人口」指普查標準時刻適在所查處所之人口（de facto population）。

de jure （ L. ）：法理上；根據法理。

de jure divino （ L. ）：來自神的規律（定）。

de jure humano （ L. ）：來自人的規律（定）。

De jure (in Classical Latin de iure) is an expression that means "concerning law", as contrasted with de facto, which means "concerning fact".
The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of "in principle" and "in practice", respectively, when one is describing political or legal situations.
In a legal context, de jure is also translated as "concerning law". A practice may exist de facto, where for example the people obey a contract as though there were a law enforcing it, yet there is no such law. A process known as "desuetude" may allow de facto practices to replace obsolete laws. On the other hand, practices may exist de jure and not be obeyed or observed by the people.

Examples

It is, in fact, possible to have multiple simultaneous de jure legalities that are not represented in fact. Between 1805 and 1952, the ruling dynasty of Egypt were de jure viceroys of the Ottoman Empire, but were de facto independent rulers who maintained a polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, from about 1875, they had only de jure rule over Egypt, as they had by that point become a British puppet state. Thus, Egypt was, by Ottoman law, de jure a province of their empire, by Egyptian law de jure independent, but was de facto part of the British empire.

See also

• De facto

tip one's hand

North American • informal Reveal one’s intentions inadvertently.

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• Collecting stories across the political spectrum, he never tips his hand to reveal his views or prejudices.
• He doesn't tip his hand and reveal why he knows, but he tells Clark that he knows the story about his rescue is not quite true.
• But that will be carefully parsed by all of the economists on Wall Street to see - and if you're familiar with the way that Alan Greenspan speaks, he's almost rarely, rarely tips his hand.

desuetude

Line breaks: de¦sue|tude

Pronunciation: /ˈdɛswɪtjuːd

  

, dəˈsjuːətjuːd

  

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NOUN

[MASS NOUN] FORMAL

A state of disuse:the docks fell into desuetude

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Origin

early 17th century (in the sense 'cessation'): from French, from Latin desuetudo, from desuet- 'made unaccustomed', from the verb desuescere, from de-(expressing reversal) + suescere 'be accustomed'.