Distincte Et Aperte
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Inold Englisn practice
Distinctly and openly. Forms al words in writs of error, referring to the return required to be made to them.
Reg. Orig. 17.
Distinguenda sunt tempora
The tims is to be considered.
1 Coke, 16a; 2 Pick, 327; 14 N. Y. 380, 393.
Distinguenda sunt teompora; aliud est favere, aliud perficere. Times must bea distinguished; it is one thing to do, another to perfect. 3 Leon. 243; Branch, Prine. Distinguenda sunt tempora; distingus tempora et concordabis leges. Times are to be distinguished; distinguish times, and you will harmonize laws.
1 Coke, 24.
A maxim applied to the construction of statutes.