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Cuicunque aliquis quid concedit

Defined in 1 dictionary — Stimson (1881)

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

concedere videtur et id sine quo res ipsa esse non potuit, /. Any one who grants anything to another is held also to grant that without which the thing itself could not exist. Cuilibet in arte sua perito credendum est, I. Any skilled person is to be believed in his own art. est commodum, debet esse incommodum, I. dare, ejus est disponere (whose it is to give, his it is to dispose): a giver can regulate the applicatioa of his gift. Cujus est divisio, alterius est electio: whichever has the division, the other has the choice [of shares]. Cujus est dominium ejus est periculum: he who has the ownership bears the risk. Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum et ad inferos: he who owns the ground possesses also to the sky and the centre of the earth, i. a. all things above and below it. Cul., culp.,;. (Culpabihs.) Guilty. Cul. prit.: guilty; ready, etc. A reply of the clerk, on behalf of the Crown, to a prisoner's plea of not guilty, in criminal cases.