Won-Jurors
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Englishlaw. Per sons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government. Won jus ex regula, sed regula ey jure. The law does not arise from the rule, (or maxim,) but the rule from the lay Tray. Lat. Max. 384. Non jus, sed seisina, facit stipitem. Not right, but seisin, makes a stock. Fleta, lib.
6, c.2, § 2.
It is not a mere right to enter on lands, but actual seésin, which makes a person the root or stock from which all future inheritance by right of blood must be derived.
2 Bl Comm. 209, 312. See Broom, Max. 525, 527.
Won licet quod dispendio licet
That which may be [done only] at a loss is not allowed [to be done.] The law does not permit or require the doing of an act which will result only in loss. ‘The law forbids such recoveries whose ends are vain, chargeable, and unprofitable.
Co. Litt. 1276.