Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
RATIO autem generalis, generallter lex est intelligenda. When the law. Is special, but its reason is general, the law is to be understood generally. 2 Inst. 83; 10 Coke, 101.