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Quod Populus Postremum Jussit

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

Id jus ratum esto. What the people have last enacted, let that be the established law. 1 Bl. Comm. 89. QUOD PRIMUM EST INTENTIONE UUtimum est in operatione. That which is first in intention is last in operation. Bac. Max. QUOD PRINCIPI PLACUIT LEGIS HAbet vlgopem. That which has pleased the prince has the force of law. The emperor's pleasure has the force of law. Dig. 1.4. 1; Inst. 1. 2. 6. A celebrated maxim of imperial law.