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A coelo usque ad centrum

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

JD From the heavens to the center of the earth.

A communi observantia non est reecedendum

From common observance there should be no departure; there must be no departure from common usage.

2 Coke, 74; Co, Litt. 186a, 2296, 365a; Wing. Max. 752, max. 203.

A maxim applied to the practice of the courts, to the ancient and established forms of pleading and conveyancing, and to professional usage generally.

Id. 752-755.

Lord Coke applies it to common professional opinion, Co. Litt. 1862, 3646.