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Non Debet

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

CUI PLUS LICET, QUOD minus est, non licere. He who is permitted to do the greater may vdth greater reason do the less. Dig. 50. 17. 21; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 165. NON DEBET DICI TENDERE IN PRAE- Judicium ecclesiasticae libertatis quod pro rege et republica necessarium videtur. That which seems necessary for the king and the state ought not to be said to tend to the prejudice of spiritual liberty. 2 Inst. 625.