It is used to mean that someone has reached a position or degree without going through the posts or lower grades according to the established order.
[1] For example, as in some Protestant churches, being consecrated bishop without first being ordained priest.
[citation needed] The phrase is also used in the legal term certiorari per saltum, meaning the possibility of seeking a resolution before a higher court, bypassing intermediate courts.
A notable example is Erasmus of Rotterdam's Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from the University of Turin in 1509, gained over fifteen days:[2] Erasmus had previously studied or taught at the Universities of Paris, Cambridge, Oxford and Louvain; this per saltum degree is his only recorded qualification.
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