Quum principalis cantsa non consistit ne ea qui dem quce sequuntur locum habent. When the prin cipal cause does not hold its ground, neither do the accessories find place. Dig. 50. 17. 129. 1; Broom, Max. 496 ; 1 Pothier, Obl. 413.
Rotrihobitio mandato cequiparatur. Ratification is equal to a command. Dig. 46. 3. 12. 4 ; Broom, Max,;867 ; .20 Pick. (Mass.) 95. See Omnis ratihabi tio,etc.
Ratio est formalis causa consuetudinis. Reason is the source and mould of custom.
Ratio est legis anima, mutata legis ratione muta tur et leg. Reason is the soul of the law ; the rea son of the law being changed, the law is also chang ed. 7 Co. Ratio et auctoritas duo elarissima mundi lumi na. Reason and authority are the two brightest lights in the world. 4 Inst. 320: Ratio in jure cequitas. integra. Reason in law is perfect equity.
Ratio legis est anima legis. The reason of the law is the soul of the lnw. Jenk. Cent. 45.
Ratio non clauditur loco. Reason is not confined to any place.
Ratio potest allegari deficiente lege, sed vera et legalis et non apparens. Reason may be alleged when the law is defective, but it must be true and legal reason, and not merely apparent. Co, Litt. 191.
Re, verbis, scripto, consensu, traditione, junctura vestes sumere pacta so lent. Compacts usually take their clothing from the thing itself, from words, from writings, from consent, from delivery. Plowd. 161.
Receditur a placitis juris potius quam injurice et delicta maneant impunita. Positive rules of law will be receded from rather than that crimes and wrongs should remain unpunished. Bacon, Max. Reg. 12; Broom, Max. 10. (This applies only. M such maxims as are called placita juris; these will be dispensed with rather than crimes should gd un punished, quia sales populi sUprema lea, because the public safety is the supreme law.) Recorda aunt vestigia vetustatis et veritatis. Rec ords are vestiges of antiquity and truth. 2 Rolle 296.
Rccurrendum eat ad extraordinarium quando non valet ordinarium. We must have recourse to what is extraordinary when what is ordinary fails.
Reddenda singula singulis. Let each be put in its proper place; that is, that the words should be taken distributively. 2 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 614;
Pa. Dist. Rep. 344; 12 Pick. (Mass.) 291; 18 id. 228.
Regula est, juris quidem ignorantiam cuique no cere, facti vero ignorantiam non nocere. The rule is, that ignorance of the law does not excuse, but that ignorance of a fact may excuse a party from the legal consequences of his conduct. Dig. 22. 6. 9; Broom, Max. 253. See Irvine, Civ. Law 74.
Regula pro lege, si deficit leg. In default of the law, the maxim rules.
Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alie nanda. Regularly a contract not to alienate my property is not binding. Co. Litt. 223.
Rei turpis nullum mandatum est. A mandate of an illegal thing is void. Dig. 17. 1. 6. 3.
Rcipubbicce interest voluntates defunctoruns effec tune, sortiri. It concerns the state that the wills of the dead should have their effect.
Relatio est fictio furl's et intenta ad unurn. Rela tion is a fiction of law, and intended for one thing. 3 Co. 28.
Relatio semper fiat ut valeat dispositio. Refer ence should always be had in such a manner that a disposition in a will may avail. 6 Co. 76.
Relation never defeats collateral acts. 18 Vin. Abr. 292.
Relation shall never make good a void grant or devise of the party. 18 Vin. Abr. 292.
Relative words refer to the next antecedent, unless the sense be thereby impaired. Noy, Max. 4 ; Wing: Max.. 19 ; Broom, Max. 606 ; Jenk. Cent. 180.
Relativorum cognito uno, cognoscitur et alterum. Of things relating to each other, one being known. the other is known. Cro. Jac. 539.
Religio sequitur patrem. The father's religion is. prima facie the infant's religion. Religion will fol low the father. [1902] 1 ch. 688.
Remainder can depend upon no estate but what beginneth at the same time the remainder Both. Remainder must vest at the same instant that the particular estate determines.
Remainder to a person not of a capacity to take at the time of appointing it, is void. Plowd. 27. Remedies for rights are ever favorably extended. 18 Vin. Abr. 521.
Remedies ought to be reciprocal.