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Nil Ligatum

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Nothing bound; that is,no obligation has been incurred. ‘Tray. Lat. Max. Nil sine prudenti fecit ratione vetustas. Antiquity did nothing without a good Treason.

Co. Litt. 65.

Nil temere novandum

Nothing should be rashly changed.

Jenk., Cent. 16d.

Nimia certitudo certitudinem ipsam destruit. Too great certainty destroys certainty itself.

Lofft, 244.

Nimia subtilitas in jure reprobatur.

Wing. Max. 26.

Too much subtlety in law is discountenanced. Nimium altercando veritas amittitur. Hob. 344, By too much altercation truth ig. lost.