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Quae Non Valeant Singula

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

JUNEta juvant. Things which may not avail singly, when united have an effect. 3 Bulst. 132. QUAE PLURA (Law Lat. what more).

In old English practice. A writ which lay where an inquisition had been made by an escheator in any county of such lands or tenements as any man died seised of, and all that was in his possession was imagined not to be found by the office; the writ commanding the escheator to inquire what more {quae plura) lands and tenements the party QUAE PRAETER CONSUETUDINEM ET morem majorum fiunt, neque placent, neque recta videntur. What Is done contrary to the custom and usage of our ancestors, neither pleases nor appears right. 4 Coke, 78. QUAE PROPTER NECESSITATEM REcepta sunt, non debent in argumentum trahi. Things which are tolerated on account of necessity ought not to be drawn into precedent. Dig. 50. 17. 162. QUAE RERUM NATURA PROHIBENtur, nulla lege confirmata sunt. What is prohibited in the nature of things can be confirmed by no law. Finch, Law, 74.