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Merito beneficium legis amittit, qui legem ipsam subvertere intendit

legis amittit, qui legem ipsam subvertere intendit [Lat.], he justly loses the benefit of law who purposes to overturn the law itself

attack

made in a proceeding (as an appeal) brought for the specific purpose of having the judgment corrected or overturned attack vb

inadvertent discovery

requirement for searches and seizures. In Horton v. California, 496 U.S. 128 (1990), however, the Court, while not overturning Coolidge, decided that inadvertent discovery is not a necessary condition for application of the plain view exception to

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Proa

of an ordinary boat The ends are alike The canoe is long and narrow and is kept from overturning by a cigar shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward It has been called

Reversal

Reversal, an appellate court's overturning of a lower court's decision, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1320.

Uses

the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system,

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