Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Ejuration

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Renouncing or resigning one's place. Ejyus est interpretari cujus est condere. It is his to interpret whose it is to enact.

Tayl. Civil Law, 96.

Bjus est nolle, qui potest velle. He who can will, [exercise volition, ] has a right to refuse to will, [to withhold consent.} Dig. cio 50, 7, 3. Ejus est periculum eujus est dominium aut commodum. He who has the dominion or advantage has the risk. Ejus nulla culpa est, eui parere necesse sit. No guilt attaches to him who is compelled to obey. Dig. 50, 17, 169, pr. Obedience to existing laws is a sufficient extenuation of guilt before a civil tribunal. =a Broom, Max. 12, note, SS eS