ContrÖ non volentem agere nulla currit praescriptio. No prescription runs against a person unable to act. Broom's Max. 398.ContrÖ verita...
Consensus non concubitus facit nuptiam. Consent, not lying together, constitutes marriage.Consensus facit legem. Consent makes the law. A contract is ...
C'est le crime qui fait la honte, et non pas l'echafaud. It is the crime which causes the hsame, and not the scaffold.Charta de non ente non v...
Augupia verforum sunt judice indigna. A twisting of language is unworthy of a judge. Hob. 343.Bona fides non patitur, ut bis idem exigatur. Natural eq...
Aqua cedit solo. The water yields or accompanies the soil. The grant of the soil or land carries the water.Aqua curit et debet currere. Water runs and...
Actor qui contra regulam quid adduxit, non est audiendus. He ought not to be heard who advances a proposition contrary to the rules of law.Actor sequi...
MATTER OF RECORD. Those facts which may be proved by the production of a record. It differs from matter in deed, which consists of facts which may be ...
MATERTERA. Maternal aunt; the sister of one's mother. Inst. 3, 4, 3; Dig. 38, 10, 10, 14.MATHEMATICAL EVIDENCE. That evidence which is established...
MATERIALS. Everything of which anything is made.2. When materials are furnished to a workman he is bound to use them according to his contract, as a t...
MASTER OF THE ROLLS. Eng. law. An officer who bears this title, and who acts as an assistant to the lord chancellor, in the court of chancery.2. This ...