Apex Juris
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The summit of the law; a legal subtlety; a nice or cunning point of law; close technicality; a rule of law carried to an extreme point, either of severity or refinement. Apices juris non sunt jura, [jus.] Extremities, or mere subtleties of law, are not rules of law, [are not law.] Co. Litt. 304b; 10 Coke, 126; Wing. Max. 19, max.
14; Broom, Max. 188.