Statutum affirmativum non derogat communi legi. An affirmative stature does not take from the common law. Jenk. Cent. 24.Statutum generaliter est inte...
Simplicitas est legibus amica. Simplicity is favorable to the law. 4 Co. 8.Sine possessione usucapio procedere non potest. There can be no prescriptio...
Si judicas, cognasce. If you judge, understand.Si meliores sunt quos ducit amor, plures sunt quos corrigit timer. If many are better led by love, more...
Semper praesumitur pro legitimatione puerorem, et filiatio non potest probari. Children are alwasy presumed to be legitimate, for filiation cannot be ...
Satius est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos. It is better to search the fountain than to cut rivulets. 10 Co. 118. It is better to drink at the foun...
Rights never die.Reus laesae majestatis punitur, ut pereat unus ne pereant omnes. A traitor is punished, that by the death of one, all may not perish....
Rerum suarum quilibet est moderator et arbiter. Every one is the manager and disposer of his own. Co. Litt. 233.Res denominator a principaliori parte....
Relation never defeats collateral acts. 18 Vin. Ab. 292.Relation shall never make good a void grant or devise of the party. 18 Vin. Ab. 292.Relatiorum...
Ratio legis est anima legis. The reason of the law is the soul of the law.Ratio non clauditur loco. Reason is not confined to any place.Ratio potest a...
Quod pro minore licitum est, et pro majore licitum est. What is lawful in the less, is lawful in the greater. 8 Co. 43.Quod quis ex culpa sua damnum s...