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Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
Lat. More. Plus peccat author quam actor: the originator or instigator of a crime is a worse offender than the actual perpetrator of it. Plus valet unus oculatus testis quam auriti decem: one eye-witness is of more weight than ten ear-witnesses (or those who speak from hearsay).
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/. More. Plus peccat author quam actor: the instigator sins more than the actor. Plus valet unus oculatua testis quam auriti decern: one eyewitness is of more weight than ten earwitnesses.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Decemcsdosolei. Bract, fol 35, C-^DUA. Lat. [from ccedere, to cut.] In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood. Silva csedua est qucB in hoc hahetur ut ccederetur; sylva ccsdua is that kind of wood which is kept for the purpose of being cut. Dig, 50. 16. 30. According to Servius, it was that kind which, when cut down, grew up again from the trunks or roots. Id,