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Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
He who takes away the means destroys the end. Co. Litt. 161. QUI ALIQUID STATUERIT PARTE INaudlta altera, aequum llce't dixerit, haud aequum facerit. He who decides anything, a party being unheard, though he should decide right, does wrong. 6 Coke, 52; 4 Bl. Comm. 483.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
He who takes away the means destroys the end.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Qa who takes away the mean destroys the end. Co.. Litt. 161a. He that deprives a man of the mean by which he ought to come to a thing deprives him of the thing itself. Id-; Litt § 237.