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Leges Vigilantibus

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

NON DORMIENtibus subveniunt. The laws aid the vigilant, not the negligent. Fanning; Dunham; 5 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 122, 145; Toole; Cook; 16 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 142, 144. LEGIBUS SOLUTUS (Lat.) Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. An expression applied in the Roman civil law to the emperor. Calv. Lex.; 3 Gibb. Rom. Emp. 157.