Optiivia Est Lex
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
QUAE MINIiVIUM reiinquit arbitriO' judicis. That is the best system of law which confides as little as possible to the discretion of the judge.
Bac. Aph. 46.
OPTIMA STATUTI INTERPRETATRIX est (omnibus particulis ejusdem inspectis) ipsum statutum. The best interpretress of a statute is (all the separate parts being considered) the statute itself.
8 Coke, 117; Wingate, Max. 239, max. 68.