Cessante Ratione Legis Cessat
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
et Ipsa lex. Reason is the soul of the law, and when the reason of any particular law ceases, so does the law itself. 4 Coke, 38; 7 Coke, 69; Co. Litt. 70b, 122a; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 151, 152; 4 Rep. 38; 13 East, 348; 4 Bing. N. C. 388.