Law Library
- Accessorium non ducit sed sequitur suum principale – An accessory does not draw, but follows its principal.
- Accessorius sequitur – One who is an accessory to the crime cannot be guilty of a more serious crime than the principal offender.
- Acta exteriora iudicant interiora secreta – Outward acts indicate the inward intent.
- Actio non datur non damnificato – An action is not given to one who is not injured.
- Actio non accrevit infra sex annos – The action has not accrued within six years.
- Actio personalis moritur cum persona – A personal action dies with the person.
- Actori incumbit onus probandi – The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.
- Actus nemini facit injuriam – The act of the law does no one wrong.
- Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea – The act does not make one guilty unless there be a criminal intent.
- Ad quaestionem facti non respondent judices; ad quaestionem legis non respondent juratores – The judges do not answer to a question of fact; the jury do not answer to a question of Law.
- Aedificare in tuo proprio solo non licet quod alteri noceat – It is not lawful to build on one’s own land what may be injurious to another.
- Aequitas legem sequitur – Equity follows the law.
- Alibi – At another place, elsewhere.
- Allegans contraria non est audiendus – One making contradictory statements is not to be heard.
- Allegans contraria non est audiendus – One making contradictory statements is not to be heard.
- Ambiguitas verborum patens nulla verificatione excluditur – A patent ambiguity is never helped by averment.
- Ambiguitas verborum patens nulla verificatione excluditur – A patent ambiguity is never helped by averment.
- Argumentum ab auctoritate fortissimum est in lege – An argument drawn from authority is the strongest in law.
- Arma in armatos sumere jura sinunt – The laws permit the taking up of arms against the armed.
- Assentio mentium – The meeting of minds, i.e. mutual assent.
- Audi alteram partem – Hear the other side.
- Bona fide – Sincere, in good faith
- Causa proxima, non remota spectatur – The immediate, and not the remote cause is to be considered.
- Consensus ad idem – Agreement as to the same things.
- Corpus delicti – The body, i.e. the gist of crime
- Crimen omnia ex se nata vitiat – Crime vitiates every thing, which springs from it.
- Crimen trahit personam – The crime carries the person.
- Cursus curiae est lex curiae – The practice of the court is the law of the court.
- Damnum sine injuria – damage without legal injury.
- Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat – The burden of the proof lies upon him who affirms, not he who denies.
- Ex dolo malo actio non oritur – A right of action cannot arise out of fraud.
- Ex praecedentibus et consequentibus optima fit interpretatio – The best interpretation is made from things preceding and following.
- Falsa demonstratio non nocet – A false description does not vitiate.
- Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit – He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
- Fraus est celare fraudem – It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.
- Frustra probatur quod probatum non relevat – That is proved in vain which when proved is not relevant.
- Habemus optimum testem confitentem reum – We have the best witness, a confessing defendant.
- Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat – Ignorance of fact excuses, ignorance of law does not excuse.
- Impotentia excusat legem – Impossibility is an excuse in the law.
- In alta proditione nullus potest esse acessorius; sed principalis solum modo – In high treason no one can be an accessory; but a principal only.
- In criminalibus probationes debent esse luce clariores – In criminal cases the proofs ought to be cleared than the light.
- Intentio inservire debet legibus, non leges intentioni – Intention ought to be subservient to the laws, not the laws to the intention.
- Judicis est judicare secundum allegata et probata – It is the duty of a judge to decide according to the allegations and the proofs.
- Jus dicere, non jus dare – To declare the law, not to make the law.
- Justitia est duplec; severe puniens et vere praeveniens – Justice is two-fold; severely punishing and in reality prohibiting (offences).
- Lex non deficere potest in justitia exhibenda – The law cannot fail in dispensing justice.
- Sublato fundamento cadit opus – Foundation being removed structure falls .
- Suppressio veri expressio falsi – A suppression of truth is equivalent to an expression of falsehood.
- Ut poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes, perveniat – That punishment may come to a few, the fear of it should affect all.
- Voluntas in delictis non exitus spectatur – In offences the intent and not the result is looked at.
