legal-terms from-the-latin
Legal / latin term for argument that treats someone else&#39;s injuries as one&#39;s own?
<p>Interning in a court, and I note that the defendant's brief once had a case dismissed because of potential overreach by the court, but that overreach would not injure the defendant's interests, it would injure others.</p>
<p>I feel like there's a legal or latin term for this kind of argumentation -- where you're acting as if injuries to someone else are actually injuries to you, and requesting relief for those injuries.</p>
<p>Does such a term exist, and if so what is it?</p>

<p>It sounds like you're thinking of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-3/section-2/clause-1/standing-to-assert-the-rights-of-others" rel="nofollow noreferrer">third-party standing</a>.</p>

<p>Following on from bdb484's answer:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/jus_terti" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em><strong>jus terti</strong></em></a> is the...</p>
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<p>latin term meaning third-party standing.</p>
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