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Quod Ab Initio Non Valet

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

IN TRACtu temporis non convalescet, Wliat is not good in the beginning cannot be rendered good by time. Merlin, Report, verb. Regie de Droit. This, though true in general, is' not universally so. 4 Coke, 26; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 166, 172, note.