Exceptio Peremptoria
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Inthe civil law
A peremptory exception; called also “perpetua,” (perpetual;) one which forevar destroyed the subject-matter or ground exceptio metus, etc.
Inst. 4, 13,9. See Dig. 44, 1, 3.
In common law. A peremptory plea; s pleainbar. Bract. fols.
240, 3995.
Exceptio probat regulam
The exception proves the rule.
11 Coke, 41; 3 Term, 722.
Sometimes quoted with the addition “de rebus non exeeptis,” (“so far as concerns the matters not excepted.”) Exceptio que firmat legem, exponit legem. An exception which confirms the law explains the law.
2 Bulst. 189.