Optimacy
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Nebility; men of the highest rank, Optimam esse legem, que minimum relinquit arbitrio judicis; id quod certitudo ejus preestat. That law is the best which leaves Lhe least discretion to the judge; and this is an advantage which results from its certainty.
Bae. Aphorisms, 8.
Optimus interpres rerum usus
Use or usage is the best interpreter of things.
2 Inst. 282; Broom, Max. 917, 930, 931.
Optimus interpretandi modus est sic leges interpretari ut leges legibus concordant.
8 Coke, 169.
Ths best mode of interpretation is so to interpret laws that they may accord with each other. Optimus legum interpres consuetudo.
4 Inst. 75.
Custom is the best interpreter of the laws.