Saepe Constitutum Est
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
RES INter alios judicatas aliis non praejudicare. It has often been settled that matters adjudged between others ought not to prejudice those who were not parties. Dig. 42. 1. 63. SAEPE VIATOREM NOVA NON VETUS orbita fallit. Often it is the new track, not the old one, which deceives the traveller. 4 Inst. 34. SAEPENUMERO UBI PROPRIETAS verborum attenditur, sensus veritatis amittitur. Frequently, where the propriety of words is attended to, the meaning of truth is lost. 7 Coke, 27. SAEVITIA (Lat.) Cruelty of one spouse to the other. To constitute saevitia there must be such a degree of cruelty as to endanger the party's suffering bodily hurt. 1 Hagg. Consist. 35; 2 Mass. 150; 3 Mass. 321; 4 Mass. 587.