Legal Definitions - per saltum

PER SALTUM

Per saltum is a Latin term that means "by a leap" or "without an intermediate step."

1. A student who skips a grade and goes directly from 6th to 8th grade is advancing per saltum.

2. In some legal systems, a case can be appealed directly to a higher court without going through the intermediate court. This is known as an appeal per saltum.

The examples illustrate the definition of per saltum by showing situations where a step is skipped in a process. In the first example, the student is skipping a grade level and advancing directly to the next one. In the second example, the case is being appealed directly to a higher court without going through the intermediate court. Both examples demonstrate the idea of skipping an intermediate step and advancing "by a leap" or per saltum.