Interest
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
/. It concerns; it benefits. Interest reipublicse, it is of public importance, ne maleficia remaneant impunita, that crimes should not remain unpunished; ne sua quis male utatur, that no one make bad use of his property; quod homines conserventur, that the [lives of] men be preserved; res judicatas non rescind!, that things once adjudged should not be rescinded; suprema hominum testamenta rata haberi, that men's last wills be held valid; ut carceres sint in tuto, that prisons be secure; ut finis sit litium, that there should be an end of suits.