Particular measures of length. 1st. Used for measuring cloth of all kinds. 1 nail = 2 1/4 inches 1 quarter = 4 inches 1 yard = 4 quarters 1 ell = 5 q...
MAYHEMAVIT. Maimed. This is a term of art which cannot be supplied in pleadings by any other word; as, mutilavit, truncavit, &c. 3 Tho. Co. Litt. ...
When no time is limited, the law appoints the most convenient.When the law gives anything, it gives a remedy for the same.When the foundation fails, a...
Vicarius non habet vicaruim. A deputy cannot appoint a deputy. Branch's max. 38; Broom's max. 384; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1300.Vigilantibus et non d...
Verba generalia generaliter sunt intelligenda. General words are to be generally understood. 3 Co. Inst. 76.Verba ganeralia restringuntur ad habilitat...
Unumquodque dissolvatur eo modo quo colligatur. Everything is dissolved by the same mode in which it is bound together.Usury is odious in law.Ut paena...
Ubi quid generaliter conceditur, in est haec exceptio, si non aliquid sit contra jus fasque. Where a thing is concealed generally, this exception aris...
Ubi jus, ibi remedium. Where there is a right, there is a remedy. 1 T. R. 512; Co. Litt. 197, b; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2411; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3726.Ubi jus ...
Tonte exception non surveillÇe tend Ö prendre la place du principe. Every exception not watched tends to assume the place of the principle...
Talis non est eadem, nam nullum simile est idem. What is like is not the same, for nothing similar is the same. 4 Co. 18.Tantum bona valent, quantum v...