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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Each one of all; the term includes nil the separate individuals who constitute the whole, regarded one by one, Geary v. Parker, 65 Ark. 521, 47 S. W. 238; Purdy v. People, 4 Hili (N. Y.) 413. Every man must be taken to contemplate the probable cousequeuces of the act he does.

Lord Ellenborough, 9 East, 277.

A fundamental maxim in the law of evidence.

Best, Pres. § 16; 1 Phil. Ev. 444.