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ipso facto

adverb

B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

By that very fact or act, indicating that a consequence follows automatically from a stated circumstance.

A material breach does not ipso facto terminate the contract; the innocent party must elect to accept it.

Topic: Legal drafting in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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