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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I encountered “prima fascia” for “prima facie” in the writing of another lawyer. It gets a lot of google hits. I’m not sure anyone using “fascia” is thinking of a particular meaning; they’re probably just substituting a spelling that seems sensible and that they have encountered elsewhere (fascia = bundle of muscle tissue; see also “Fascist”).
Still, seems like an eggcorn to me.
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