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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
SED ITA LEX SCRIPTA EST. Lat. (This indeed is exceedingly hard, but so the law is written; such is the written or positive law.) An observation quoted by Blackstone as used by Ulpian in the civil law; and applied to eases where courts of equity have no power to abate the rigor of the law.
Dig. 40, 9, 12, 1; 3 Bl. Comm. 430.
HOC PARATUS EST VERIPFI-