Receditur A Placitis Juris
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
POTIus quam injuriae et delicta maneant impunita. Positive rules of law will be receded from rather than crimes and wrongs should remain unpunished. Bac. Max. reg. 12; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 9. This applies only to such maxims as are called placita juris. These will be dispensed with rather than crimes should go unpunished, quia salus populi suprema lex, because the public safety is the supreme law.