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Nemo Damnum Facit

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

NISI QUI ID facit quod facere jus non habet. No one is considered as doing damage unless he who is doing what he has no right to do.

Dig. 50. 17. 151.

NEMO DARE POTEST QUOD NON HAbet

No man can give that which he has not. Fleta, lib.

3, c. 15, § 8.