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EX post facto convalescere non possunt. Things invalid from the beginning cannot be made valid by subsequent act. Tray. Lat. Max. 482. QUAE ACCESSIORIUM LOCUM OBTInent, extinguuntur cum princlpales res peremptae fuerint. When the principal is destroyed, those things which are accessory to it are also destroyed. Poth. Obi. pt. 3, c. 6, art. 4; Dig. 33. 8. 2; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 439. QUAE AD UNUM FINEM LOQUUTA sunt, non debent ad alium detorqueri. Words, spoken to one end ought not to be perverted to another. 4 Coke, 14. QUAE COHAERENT PERSONAE A PERsona separarl nequeunt. Things which belong to the person ought not to be separated from the person. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 28. QUAE COMMUNI LEGI DEROGANT stricte interpretantur. Laws which derogate from the common law ought to be strictly construed. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 221. QUAE CONTRA RATIONEM JURIS INtroducta sunt, non debent trahi In consequentiam. Things introduced contrary to the reason of the law ought not to be drawn into precedents. 12 Coke, 75. QUAE DUBITATIONIS CAUSA TOLLENdae inseruntur communem legem non laedunt. Whatever is inserted for the purpose of removing doubt does not hurt or affect the common law. Co. Litt. 205. QUAE DUBITATIONIS TOLLENDAE causa contractlbus inseruntur, jus commune non laedunt. Particular clauses Inserted in agreements to avoid doubts and ambiguity do not prejudice the common law. Dig. 50, 17. 81. QUAE EST EADEM (Lat. which is the same).

In pleading. A clause containing a statement that the trespass, or other fact mentioned in the plea, is the same as that laid in the declaration, where from the circumstances there is an apparent difl Ference between the two. 1 Chit. PL 473; Gould, PL c. 3, §§ 79, 80; 29 Vt. 455. The form is as follows: "Which are the same assaulting, beating, and ill-treating, the said John, in the said declaration men- James." See 1 Saund. 14, 208, note 2; 2 Saund. 5a, note 3; Archb. Civ. PL 217; Comyn, Dig. "Pleader" (E 31); Cro. Jac. 372; 1 Chit. PL 473. QUAE IN CURIA ACTA SUNT RITE AGI praesumuntur. Whatever is done in court is presumed to be rightly done. 3 Bulst. 43. QUAE IN PARTES DIVIDI NEQUEUNT solida, a singulis praestantur. Things (I. e., services and rents) which cannot be divided into parts are rendered entire by each severally. 6 Coke, 1. QUAE IN TESTAiVIENTO ITA SUNT scripta ut intelligi non possunt, perinde sunt ac si scripta non essent. Things which are so written in a will that they cannot be understood are as if they had not been written. Dig. 50. 17. 73. 3. QUAE INCONTINENTER VEL CERTO fiunt in esse videntur. Whatever things are done at once and certainly appear part of the same transaction. Co. Litt. 236. QUAE INTER ALIOS ACTA SUNT NEIVIini nocere debent, sed prodesse possunt. Transactions between strangers may benefit, but cannot injure, persons who are parties to them. 6 Coke, 1. ' QUAE LEGI COIMiVIUNi DEROGANT NON sunt tralienda in exempium. Things derogatory to the common law are not to be drawn into precedent. Branch, Princ. QUAE LEGI COMMUNI DEROGANT stricte interpretantur. Those things which derogate from the common law are to be construed strictly. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 29. QUAE MALA SUNT INCHOATA IN principio vix bono peragantur exitu. Things bad in the commencement seldom end well. 4 Coke, 2.