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Potentia Est Duplex

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

REMOTA ET propinqua; et potentia remotlssima et vana est quae nunquam venit in actum. Possibility is of two kinds, remote and near; that which never comes into action is a power the most remote and vain. ' 11 Coke, 51.