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Certa Debet Esse Intentio

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

ET narratio et certum fundamentum, et certa res quae deducitur in judicium. The intention, count, foundation, and thing, brought to judgment, ought to be certain.

Co. Litt. S03a.