Noxa Sequitur Caput - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Noxa sequitur caput. Jus. Civ, (Guilt follows the person.)...
Caput lupinum
Caput lupinum, a wolf's head. An outlawed felon was said to be caput lupinum, and might be knocked on the head, like a wolf....
Caput anni
Caput anni, the first day of the year....
Caput baroni'
Caput baroni', the castle or chief seat of a baron....
Caput jejunii
Caput jejunii, the beginning of the Lent Fast, i.e., Ash Wednesday....
Caput mortuum
Caput mortuum, dead; obsolete....
Lupinum caput gerere
Lupinum caput gerere, to be outlawed, and have one's head exposed like a wolf's, with a reward to him who should take it....
Rex est caput et salus reipublica
Rex est caput et salus reipublica (4 Co. 124), the king is the head and guardian of the commonwealth....
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum (7 Rep. 14), an outlaw is, as it were, put out of the protection of the law: he carries the head of a wolf....
Accessorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale
Accessorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale [Lat.], The accessory right does not lead, but follows its principal. Rent is incident to the reversion, and by a grant of the reversion the rent will pass: Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 141 (1). The law relative to contracts and mercantile transactions likewise presents many examples of the rule. Thus the obligation of the surety is accessory to that of the principal, and is extinguished by the release or discharge of the latter; but the converse does not hold. So, likewise, interest of money is accessory to the principal, and must, in legal language, follow its nature....
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