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Statutory Construction Latin Maxims With Digested Cases
Statutory Construction Latin Maxims With Digested Cases
Statutory Construction Latin Maxims With Digested Cases
B. POWER TO CONSTRUE
1. Legis interpretation legis vim obtinet.
Judicial construction and interpretation of a statute acquires the force of law.
Hoc quidem perquam durum est, sed ita lex scripta est.
It is exceedingly hard, but so the law is written.
C. IMPLICATIONS
A. IN GENERAL
24. Generalia verba sunt generaliter intelligenda.
General words should be understood in their general sense.
Generis dictum generaliter est interpretandum.
A general statement is understood in its general sense.
25. Verba accipienda sunt secundum subjectam materiam.
A word is to be understood in the context in which it is used.
Verba mere aequivoca, si per communem usum loquendi in intellectu certo
sumuntur, talis intellectus preferendus est.
Equivocal words or those with double meaning are to be understood
according to their common and ordinary sense.
Verba artis ex arte.
Words of art should be explained from their usage in the art to which they belong.
Verba generalia restringuntur ad habilitatem rei vel personam.
B. ASSOCIATED WORDS
A. IN GENERAL
A. IN GENERAL
A. REPEAL
B. In obscuris inspici solere quod versimilius est, aut quod plerumque fieri solet.
When matters are obscure, it is customary to take what appears to be more likely or
what usually often happens.
Ambiguitas verborum patens nulla verificatione excluditur.
A patent ambiguity cannot be cleared up by extrinsic evidence.
Jus constitui oportet in his quae ut plurimum accidunt non quae ex inordinato.
Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which happen most frequently, and
not to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence.
Quod semel aut bis existit praetereunt legislatores.
Legislators pass over what happens only once or twice.
De minimis non curat lex.
The law does not concern itself with trifling matters.