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Lex Non Exacte Definit

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

SED ARbitrlo boni viri permittit. The law does not define exactly, but trusts in the judgment of a good man.

9 Mass. 475.

LEX NON FAVET VOTIS DELICATOrum

The law favors not the wishes of the dainty.

9 Coke, 58a.

LEX NON INTENDIT ALIQUID IMPOSsibile

The law Intends not anything impossible.

12 Coke, 89a.

LEX NON PATITUR FRACTIONES ET divisiones statuum. The law suffers no fractions and divisions of estates.

1 Coke, 87; Branch, Princ.