Argumentative

By way of reasoning. A plea must be (among other things) di- ARGUMENTUM A COMMUNITER ACcidentibus in Jura frequens est. An argument drawn from things commonly happening is frequent in law.

Broom, Leg. Max. 44.

ARGUMENTUM A DIVISIONE EST fortissimum in jure. An argument arising from a division is most powerful in law.

6 Coke, 60; Co. Litt 213b.

ARGUMENTUM A MAJOR! AD MINUS negative non valet; valet e converso. An argument from the greater to the less is of no force negatively; conversely it is.

Jenk. Cent Cas. 281.

ARGUMENTUM A SIMILI VALET IN lege. An argument drawn from a similar case, or analogy, avails in law.

Co. Litt. 191.

ARGUMENTUM AB AUCTORITATE est fortissimum in lege. An argument drawn from authority is the strongest in law.

Co. Litt. 254.

ARGUMENTUM AB IMPOSSIBILI PLUrlmum valet in lege. An argument deduced from impossibility greatly avails in law.

Co. Litt 92.

ARGUMENTUM AB INCONVENIENTI ost validum in lege; quia lex non permlttit allquod inconveniens. An argument drawn from what is inconvenient is good in law, because the law will not permit any inconvenience.

Co. Litt 66a, 258; 7 Taunt 627; 3 Barn. & C. 131; 6 Clark & F. 671.

ARGUMENTUM AB INCONVENIENTI plurimum vale (est validum) in lege. An argument drawn from inconvenience is of the greatest weight (is forcible) in law.

Co. Litt. 66a, 97a, 152b, 258b; Broom, Leg. Max. 184.

If there be in any deed or instrument equivocal expressions, and great inconvenience must necessarily follow from one construction, it is strong to show that such construction is not according to the true intention of the grantor; but where there is no equivocal expression in the instrument, and the words used admit only of one meaning, arguments of inconvenience prove only want of foresight in the grantor.

3 Madd. 540; 7 Taunt 496.