aforesaid
Mentioned just above
Aforesaid means mentioned earlier in a document or conversation.
The word is formal and legalistic: the aforesaid property, the aforesaid parties.
It serves the same function as aforementioned, pointing back to something already identified without repeating it.
Outside legal and bureaucratic writing, it sounds stiff or deliberately old-fashioned.
Previously mentioned or stated
- precedingComing before in order
- priorExisting before another
- earlierAt a prior time
- previouslyBefore the present moment
mentioned · above · antecedent · forenamed · former · prefatory · introductory · preliminary
foregoing
Previously mentioned or stated
previously · mentioned · above · antecedent · forenamed · former · prefatory · introductory · preliminary · reference
above-mentioned
Referred to earlier
precedent · jurisprudence · litigation · testimony · plaintiff · defendant · verdict · subpoena · affidavit · prosecution
- Archaismsthee, thou, thy, thine, ye
- legalesehereby, herein, hereinafter, hereof, hereto
- formal wordshereby, herein, thereof, thereby, whereby
- legal archaismsattainder, escheat, outlawry, livery of seisin, trial by ordeal
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
- archaic Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
aforesaidfollowing
Coming after another
subsequent · forthcoming · below · ensuing · succeeding
saying, said, unsaid, gainsay, aforementioned, afore, aforethought