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Ex nihilo nihil fit

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

Black's Law Dictionary

From nothing nothing comes.

Jackson v. Waldron, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 178, 221; Root v. Stuyvesant, 18 Wend. (N. Y.) 257, 301.