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Conditio dicitur cum quid in casum incertum qui potest tendere ad esse aut non esse confertur

Conditio dicitur cum quid in casum incertum qui potest tendere ad esse aut non esse confertur. Co. Litt. 201.-(It is called a condition when something is given

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Ecclesia meliorari non deteriorari potest

Ecclesia meliorari non deteriorari potest [Lat.], The church can make its condition better, but not worse.

Meliorem conditionem suam facere potest minor deteriorem nequaqum

Meliorem conditionem suam facere potest minor deteriorem nequaqum. Co. Litt. 337.-(A minor can make his own condition better, but by no means worse.)

Nemo ex suo delicto meliorem suam conditionem facere potest

Nemo ex suo delicto meliorem suam conditionem facere potest [Lat.], no one can improve his condition by his own wrong.

Revocation of agency

the period during which the agency was to exist or to have effect. (b) By a change of condition or of state, producing an in capacity of either the principal or the agent, as (1) Mental disability … shall be revocable. (3) When an agent's act in pursuance of his authority has become obligatory, for nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam. (II.) By the agent's giving notice to his principal that he renounces

Pardon

and (2) that the sovereign cannot pardon where private justice is principally concerned in the prosecution of offenders--'non potest rex gratiam facere cum injuria et damno aliorum.' Neither at Common Law could the sovereign pardon an offence … heard and determined, the prerogative of pardon may be extended to the person impeached. A pardon may be conditional; see (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1827, s. 13. The effect of a pardon is to make the offender

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