phrase
Latin
et seq. (et sequentes)
lit. “and the following”
Used in legal and academic citation to mean 'and the following pages/sections.'
Origin
From et sequentes ('and the following ones'). Common in legal citation — 'Smith v. Jones, 245 et seq.' — and in older academic writing referring to runs of pages. Modern style guides increasingly prefer page ranges over et seq.
Modern usage
Mostly survives in law and in some classical-studies writing. In most other contexts, '15 ff.' or a page range has replaced it. Anyone using et seq. casually is almost certainly a lawyer.
Tags
legal
citation
abbreviation