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Idem Est Facere

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

ET NOLLE PROhibere cum possis

It is the same thing to do a thing as not to prohibit it when in your power.

3 Co. Inst. 158.

IDEM EST NIHIL DICERE ET INSUFFIcienter dicere. It is the same thing to say nothing, and not to say suflficiently.

2 Inst. 178.