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Home Dictionary Name: legumeConsuetudo est optimus interpres legum
Consuetudo est optimus interpres legum [Lat.], Custom is the best expounder of the laws....
Laudibus (de) legum angli'
Laudibus (de) legum angli'. Sir John Fortescue, who had been some time chief justice of the King's Bench in the reign of Henry VI., is said to have written this work, while in exile with the Prince of Wales, and others of the Lancastrian party, in France. Sir John was then made chancellor; and in that character he supposes himself holding a conversation with the young prince on the nature and excellence of the laws of England compared with the civil law and the laws of other countries. He considers at length the mode of trying matters of fact by jury, and shows how it excels that by witnesses. He informs us that some of our princes wished to introduce the civil law merely for the sake of governing in the arbitrary way allowed by that law, which declares, quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem. He then proceed to examine some other points of difference between the Civil and Common Law, always deciding in favour of our own. He concludes his book with a short account of the societies w...
Necessitas vincit legem; legum vincula irridet
Necessitas vincit legem; legum vincula irridet [Lat.], necessity overcomes law; it laughs at the chains of law....
Optima legum interpres est consuetudo
Optima legum interpres est consuetudo [Lat.], custom is the best interpreter of the law...
Praxis judicum est interpres legum
Praxis judicum est interpres legum [Lat.], the practice of the judges is the interpreter of the laws....
LL.M.
LL.M. [New Latin legum magister] master of laws ...
Divi divi
A small tree of tropical America Caeligsalpinia coriaria whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid and are used by tanners and dyers...
Legume
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves and having the seed attached at one suture as that of the pea...
VerbarLegumen
Same as Legume...
Loment
An elongated pod consisting like the legume of two valves but divided transversely into small cells each containing a single seed...
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