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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. Thus; so. Sic hie: so here. Sic interpretandum est nt verba accipiantnr cum effectu: [a statute] is to be so interpreted that the words may be taken with efifect [that its words may have effect]. Sic utere tuo nt alienum non la^das: so use your own [right or property] as not to injure another's. Sic Tolo, sic jubeo, stet pro ratione voluntas: so I will, so I order, stand my will for the reason. In Scots law. Sic subscribitnr: so it is subscribed, — formal words at the end of depositions, immediately preceding the signature. In the Roman law. Sic enim debere quern meliorem agrum snum facere, ne vicini deteriorem faciat: every one ought so to improve his land as not to injure his neighbor's.