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Home Dictionary Name: quod minusCui licet quod majus non debet quod minus est non licere
Cui licet quod majus non debet quod minus est non licere [Lat.], He who has authority to do the more important act shall not be debarred from doing that of less importance....
Non debet, cui plus licet, quod minus est non licere
Non debet, cui plus licet, quod minus est non licere [Lat.], a man having a power ought not to be debarred from less than such power enables him to do....
In eo, quod plus sit, semper inest et minus
In eo, quod plus sit, semper inest et minus [Lat.], the greater always includes the less....
Quo minus
Quo minus, a writ which lay for him who had a grant of house-bote and hay-bote in another's woods against the grantor making such waste whereby the grantee could the less enjoy his grant, Old N.B. 148.It also lay for the King's accountant in the Exchequer against any person against whom he had a right of action, and was called a quo minus because in it the plaintiff suggested that he was the King' farmer or debtor, and that the defendant had done himthe injury or damage complained of; quo minus sufficiens existit, by which he is less able to pay the King his debt or rent; see 3 Bl. Com. 45. Afterwards this suggestion of being debtor to the King was allowed to be inserted by any plaintiff who wished to proceed in that Court against any defendant, as a mere matter of form, and in this way the Court of Exchequer obtained a jurisdiction co-extensive with that of the Common Pleas in actions personal. The writ of quo minus was abolished by 2 Wm. 4, c. 39....
Participes plures sunt quasi unum corpus, in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit intergum et quod in nulla parte sit defectus
Participes plures sunt quasi unum corpus, in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit intergum et quod in nulla parte sit defectus [Lat.], several partners are as one body, inasmuch as they have one right, and it is necessary that the body be perfect, and that there be defect in no part....
Minus
Less requiring to be subtracted negative as a minus quantity...
Argumentum a majori ad minus negative non- valet; valet e converso
Argumentum a majori ad minus negative non- valet; valet e converso [Lat.], An argument from the greater to the less is of no force negatively; affirmatively it is....
Disseisinam satis facit, qui uti non permittit possessorem, vel minus commode, licet omnino non expellat
Disseisinam satis facit, qui uti non permittit possessorem, vel minus commode, licet omnino non expellat. Co. Litt. 331.-(He makes disseisin enough who does not permit the possessor to enjoy, or makes his enjoyment less beneficial, although he does not expel him altogether.)...
Juratores debent esse vicini, sufficients, et minus suspecti
Juratores debent esse vicini, sufficients, et minus suspecti [Lat.], Jurors ought to be neighbours, of sufficient estate, and free from suspicion...
Majus continet minus
Majus continet minus [Lat.], the greater contains the less....
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