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Honeste Vivere

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat. To live honorably, creditably or virtuously. One of the three general precepts to which Justinian reduced the whole doctrine of the law, (Inst 1, 1, 3; Bract, fols. 3, 3b,) the others being alterum non lœdere, (not to injure others,) and suum cuique tribuere, (to render to every man his due.)