Debet Et Solet

(Lat. Heowes and is used to.) Where a man sues in a writ of right or to recover any right of which he is for the first time disseised, as of a suit ata mill or in ease of a writ of quod permitiat, he brings his writ in the devet et solet. Reg. Orig. 144a; Fitzh. Nat. Brey. 122, M. to the law [of the place] where heoffends.

3 Inst.34.

This maximis taken frou Bracton.

Bract. fol, 1548.

Debet sua cuique domus esse perfugiam tutissimum. Every man’s houseshould be a perfectly saferefuge. 12 Johns. 31, 54. ¢ Debile fundamentum fallit opus. A weak foundation frustrates [or renders vain] the work [built upon it.] Shep. Touch. 60; Noy, Max. 5, max.12; Finch, Law, b.

1, ch. 3.

When the foundation fails, all goes to the ground; as, where the cause of action fails, the action itself must of necessity fail.

Wing, Max., 118, 114, max. 40; Broom, Max. 180,