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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

From, by, or under a will. The opposite of ab intestato, (q. v.) Ex tota materia emergat resolutio. The explanation should arise out of the whole subject-matter; the exposition of a statute should be made from all its parts together.

Wing. Max. 233.

Ex turpi causa non oritur actio

Out of a base [illegal, or immoral] consideration, an action does [can] not arise.

1 Selw. N. P. 68; Broom, Max. 730, 732; Story, Ag. § 195.

Ex turpi contractu actio non oritur

From an immoral or iniquitous contract an action does not arise. A contract founded upon an illegal or immoral consideration cannot be enforced by action.

2 Kent, Comm. 466; Dig. 2, 14, 27, 4.