in foro conscientiae

adv

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in forō conscientiae (“in the court of conscience”).

1. morally, but not necessarily legally.

   “Those human laws, that annex a punishment to it, do not at all increase it’s moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation in foro conscientiae to abstain from it’s perpetration.”

   “The principle of the censorship is still uncompromisingly maintained by the Roman Catholic Church; and this, though in general binding only in foro conscientiae, has necessarily had considerable importance in states which recognize the papacy as an independent power relations with which are established by concordat.”