Stat Pro Ratione Voluntas

The will stands in place of a reason. 1 Barb. (N. Y.) 408, 411; 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 514, 525. STAT PRO RATIONE VOLUNTAS POpuli The will of the people stands in place of a reason. 25 Barb. (N. Y.) 344, 376. STATE (Lat. stare, to place, establish). In Governmental Law. A self-sufla,cient body of persons united together in one community for the defense of their rights, and to do right and justice to foreigners.

In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one body politic; and the "state," and the "people of the state," are eauivalent expressions. 1 Pet. Cond. Rep. (U. S.) 37-39; 2 Dall. (Pa.) 425; 3 Dall. (Pa.) 93; 2 Wilson, Lect. 120; Dane, Abr. Append. §50, p. 63; 1 Story, Const. §361. A body governmental and politic, comprising all the human beings within a certain defined territory, organized for the purpose of governing, and which does supremely govern, within the limits of that territory. The positive or actual organization of the legislative or judicial powers; thus, the actual government of the state is designated by the name of the state; hence the expression, the state has passed such a law or prohibited such an act. The section of territory occupied by a state; as, the state of Pennsylvania. One of the commonwealths which form the United States of America. In Practice. To make known specifically; to explain particularly; as, to state an account, or to show the different items in an account; to state the cause of action in a declaration.

The will stands for the reason. See 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 514.

The will stands in place of a reason. Sears v. Shafer, 1 Barb. (N. Y.) 408, 411; Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., v. Hunt, 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 514, 525.