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-legal-maxims-and-phrases
• Factum infectum fieri nequit - a thing done cannot be
undone
• Corpus humanum non recipit aestimationem - A
human body is not susceptible of appraisement.
• Crescente malitia crescere debet et poena - Vice
increasing, punishment ought also to increase.
• Crimen omnia ex se nata vitiat - Crime vitiates every
thing, which springs from it.
• Crimen trahit personam - The crime carries the person.
• Cujus est dare, ejus est disponere - He who has a right to
give has the right to dispose of the gift.
• Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelam; et ad inferos
- He who owns the soil owns it up to the sky; and to its
depth.
• Cum duo inter se pugnantia reperiuntur in testamentis
ultimum ratum est - When two things repugnant to each
other are found in a will, the last is to be confirmed.
• Cursus curiae est lex curiae - The practice of the court is
the law of the court.
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