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Ubi Non Est Principalis

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

NON Potest esse acoessorius. Where there is no principal, there can be no accessory. 4 Coke, 43. UBI NULLA EST CONJECTURA QUAE ducat alio, verba intelligenda sunt ex prowould lead in any other direction, words are to be understood according to their proper meaning, nongrammatical, but according to popular usage. Grotius de Jure Belli, lib. 2, c. 16, § 2.