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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

statute. A statute affecting which the courts are not bound to take notice. poration: V.

Corporation

Private law: between subject and subject; v.

Public law

Private nuisance: a nuisance affecting a estate; v.

Nuisance

Privatum commodum publico cedit, or modum publico bono pensatur, /. yield to pubhc; or, the private inconvenience public good. Privatorum pacta, etc.: v.