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Eadem Est Ratio

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

EADEM EST LEX. The same reason, the same law. 7 Pick. (Mass.) 493. EADEM MENS PRAESUMITUR REGIS quae est juris quae esse debet, praesertim in dubiis. The mind of the sovereign is presumed to be coincident with that of the law, and with that which ought to be, especially in ambiguous matters. Hob. 154; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 53.