Compendia Sunt Dispendia
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Compendia sunt dispendia. (Abbreviations are detriments.) 'It is ever good to rely upon the book at large, for many times compendia sunt dispendia, and melius est petere fontes quam sectari rvulos.'-Co. Litt. 305 b. This passage from Coke is taken as the motto to Smith's Leading Cases.
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