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Incivile

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law. Incivile est, nisi tota lege perspecta, ana aliqua particula ejus proposita, judiecare, vel respondere. It is improper, without looking at the whole of a law, to give judgment or advice, upon a view of any one clause of it.

Dig. 1, 3, 24.

Incivile est, nisi tota sententia inspecta, de aliqua parte judicare. It is irregular, or legally improper, to pass an opinion upon any part of a sentence, without examining the whole, Hob. 171a,