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From the beginning.

Ab irato (testamentum).
(A will) made in anger.
Absolutio ab instatio.
Momentary acquittal.

Absolutio plenaria.
Full acquittal.

Accedas ad curiam.
Approach the court.

Accessorium sequitur suum principale.
Accessory matters follow the principal.

Accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo,
No man is bound to accuse himself except
before God.

Ac etiam.

...

And also: (a plea of debt).

Acta exteriora indicant interiora secretal
Outward acts indicate the inner secrets.
Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

A personal action dies with the person.
Actore non probante reus absolvitur. ›

When the plaintiff does not prove his case, the defendant is absolved.

Actor qui contra regulam quid adduxit, non est audiendus.

He ought not to be heard who advances a proposition contrary to the rules of law.

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Actus meræ facultatis.

A cause not lost by limitation.

Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea.

The act does not make a man guilty unless the mind condemns him.

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Ad quod damnum?

To what damage?
Adventitia bona.

Additional (other than inherited) property.
Equitas sequitur legem,

Equity follows the law.

Equum et bonum est léx legum.

What is good and equal is the law of laws. Estimatio præteriti delicti ex postremo facto nunquam crescit.

The estimation of a crime committed never increases from a subsequent fact.........

A facto ad jus non datur consequentia.
The inference from the fact to the law is
not allowed.

Affirmanti, non neganti incumbit probatio.
The proof lies upon him who affirms, not
on him who denies.

Aliquis non debet esse judex in propriâ causâ,

No man should be judge in his own case. Aliud est celare, aliud tacere.

To conceal is one thing, to be silent an

other.

Ambitiosum decretum.
A partial decree.

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The question falls: (there is no further discussion).

Capias ad respondendum.

Take to answer.

Causa proxima, non remota spectatur.

He has acknowledged the action. Commodum ex injuriâ suâ non habere debet. No man ought to derive any benefit from his own wrong.

The immediate, and not the remote cause,

is to be considered.

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Compos mentis.

Sound in mind.

Confessio facta in judicio omni probatione major est.

A confession made in court is of greater effect than any proof.

Consensus facit legem.

Consent makes law.

Consequentiæ non est consequentia.

A consequence ought not to be drawn from another consequence.

Consilii, non fraudulenti, nulla est obligatio. Advice, unless fraudulent, does not create an obligation.

Constructio contra rationem introducta, potius usurpatio quam consuetudo appellari debet,

A custom introduced against reason ought rather to be called a usurpation than a custom.

Consuetudo est altera lex.
Custom is another law.

Consuetudo manerii et loci est observanda. The custom of the manor and the place must be observed.

Consuetudo pro lege servatur.

Custom is held to be as law.

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