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vest it; for nemo plus juris ad alium transferre potest, quam ipse habet. There must also be an actual or constructive

the parties; thirdly, to be construed ut res magis valeat quam pereat; fourthy, when no time is limited for its performance,

many times compendia sunt dispendia, and melius est petere fontes quam sectari rvulos.'-Co. Litt. 305 b. This passage from Coke is

Bracton (Bk. 3, cap. 1) defines it:-Actio nihil aliud est quam jus prosequendi in judicio quod alicui debetur.-(An action is nothing

quasi [Latin, as if, as it were, from quam as + si if] : having such a resemblance to

premises; for, though in some cases fortior est dispositio legis quam hominis, yet that shall not extend to encumber or spoil