Optiivia Est Lex
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.