- Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus nullum. — Where the law is uncertain, there is no law
- Res est misera ubi jus est vagum et incertum. — It is a sorry state of affairs when law is vague and mutable
- Incerta pro nullis habentur. — Uncertain things are regarded as nothing.
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(questionable) adjective
arguable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, controvertible, debatable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, insecure, liable to question, not sure, open to discussion, open to question, precarious, problematic, problematical, provisional, suspect, suspicious, tentative, unconfirmed, undecided, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, unsure, untrustworthy
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index
ambiguous, approximate, capricious, casual, conditional, controversial, debatable, difficult, disputable, dubious, elusive, equivocal, fallible, hesitant, inconclusive, inconvincible, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, intangible, irresolute, leery, moot, mutable, nebulous, noncommittal, pending (unresolved), precarious, problematic, reluctant, shifting, skeptical, speculative, sporadic, subject (conditional), suspicious (questionable), unclear, unconfirmed, undecided, undependable, unforeseeable, unpredictable, unsettled, untrustworthy, vagueBurton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006