Ob reverentiam personarium et metum perjurii.
A person’s embarrassment proceeds from respect and fear of
perjury.
Obedientia est legis essentia.
Obedience is the essence of the law.
Oderunt peccare boni, virtutis amore.
The good hate to sin, from a love of virtue.
Oderunt peccare mali, formidine pœnæ.
The wicked hate to sin, from a fear of punishment.
Odio et amore judex careat.
Let a judge be free from hatred and love.
Odiosa et inhonesta non sunt in lege præsumenda; et in facto quod se
habet ad bonum et malum, magis de bono quam de malo præsumendum est.
Odious and dishonourable things are not to be presumed in
law; and in facts which relate to good and evil, it is more
to be presumed concerning good, than concerning evil.
Officium nemini debet esse damnosum.
Duty ought to be hurtful to none.
Omne actum ab agentis intentione est judicandum.
Every action is to be judged from the intention of the
agent.
Omne crimen ebrietas et incendit, detegit, et auget.
Drunkenness both inflames, detects, and aggravates every
crime.
Omne jus et omnis actio injuriarum tempore finita et circumscripta sunt.
Every law and every action is finished and circumscribed by
the time of the injury.
Omne testamentum morte consummatum est.
Every testament is completed by the death of the testator.
Omnes in defensionem reipublicæ vita bonisque omnibus cives tenentur.
All subjects are bound to defend the republic with their
life and all their goods.
Omnia Deo gratia, hominibus utilia reipublicæ honesta privatis justa et
commoda probant leges: et pro viribus cuique imponunt.
The laws approve all things agreeable to God, useful to
men, honourable to the state, just and advantageous to
private persons, and impose them upon every one according
to his faculties.
Omnia delicta in aperto leviora sunt.
All transgressions openly committed are less.
Omnia honeste et ordine fiant.
Let all things be done honourably, and in order.
Omnia præsumuntur solemniter esse acta.
All actions are usually presumed to be done in a solemn
manner.
Omnia præsumuntur in odium spoliatoris.
All things are presumed in hatred of the spoiler.
Omnia præsumuntur legibus facta.
All things are presumed done by the laws.
Omnia præsumuntur legitime facta, donec probetur in contrarium.
All things are presumed lawfully done, until it be proved
to the contrary.
Omnia præsumuntur solemniter.
All things are presumed to be done with the usual solemnity.
Omnia quæcunque causæ cognitionem desiderant, per libellum expedire non
possunt.
All things which require cognizance, cannot be explained by
a memorial.
Omnia, quæ jure contrahuntur, contrario jure pereunt.
All things which are contracted by law, perish by a
contrary law.
Omnia quæ sunt uxoris sunt ipsius viri: non habet uxor potestatem suæ,
sed vir.
All things which belong to the wife, belong to her husband;
the wife has no power herself, but the husband.
Omnia uxoris durante conjugio, mariti sunt.
All things pertaining to the wife, belong to the husband
while marriage continues.
Omnis conclusio boni et veri judicii, sequitur ex bonis et veris
præmissis et dictis juratorum.
Every result of a good and fair trial follows, from the
good and fair premises, and words of the jurors.
Omnis consensus tollit errorem.
All consent takes away error.
Omnis contractus turpitudinis legibus invisus.
Every disgraceful contract is odious to the laws.
Omnis definitio in jure civili periculosa est, parum est enim ut non
subverti possit.
Every definition in the civil law is dangerous, for there
is a chance of its being overturned.
Omnis indemnatus pro innoxio legibus habetur.
Every uncondemned person is reckoned as innocent by the
laws.
Omnis innovatio plus novitate perturbat quam utilitate prodest.
Every innovation disturbs more by its novelty, than it does
good by its utility.
Omnis lascivia legibus vetita.
All wantonness is forbidden by the laws.
Omnis nova constitutio futuris temporibus formam imponere debet; non
præteritis.
Every new constitution ought to impose a form on future
times, not on past times.
Omnis hæreditas quamvis postea adeatur, tamen cum tempore mortis
continuatur.
In whatever manner any inheritance may be entered upon, yet
it is continued till the time of death.
Omnibus infra regnum orantibus legis remedium patet.
The remedy of the law lies open to all within the kingdom
who ask it.
Optima interpres legum consuetudo.
Custom is the best interpreter of the laws.
Optimus interpretandi modus est, sic leges interpretare ut leges
legibus concordant.
The best method of interpreting, is so to interpret the
laws, that laws agree with laws.
Optimus interpres rerum usus.
Use is the best interpreter of things.
Optimus legum interpres consuetudo.
Custom is the best interpreter of laws.