Passim is a term indicating support for an argument may be found throughout the cited material. Therefore, instead of listing each page on which the support appears, use of the term passim means throughout the material. Passim is Latin for “scattered” or “spread throughout,” and it is used synonymously with “here and there.” In modern legal writing, passim has been replaced with the signal see generally.
[Last updated in November of 2023 by the Wex Definitions Team]
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