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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The whole of a person's goods and chattels, bag and baggage. EXPEDIT REPUBLICAE NE SUA RE quis male utatur. It is for the interest of the state that a man should not use his own property improperly.

Inst. 1. 8. 2; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 328.

EXPEDIT REIPUBLICAE UT SIT FINIS litium. It Is for the advantage of the state that there be an end of suits; it is for the public good that actions be brought to a close.

Co. Litt. 303b.