Ratio est anima legis.
Reason is the soul of the law.
Ratio est legis anima, mutata legis ratione mutatur et lex.
Reason is the soul of the law, the meaning of the law being
changed, the law also is changed.
Ratio et authoritas, duo clarissima mundi lumina.
Reason and authority, are the two brightest lights of the
world.
Radix et vertex imperii in obedientium consensus.
The consent of subjects is the root and top of empire.
Ratio potest allegari deficiente lege.
Reason may be alleged when the law is insufficient.
Receditur a placitis, juris potius quam injuriæ et delicta maneant
impunita.
We depart from the enactments of the law, rather than that
injuries and transgressions should remain unpunished.
Recorda sunt vestigia vetustatis et veritatis.
Records are the vestiges of antiquity and truth.
Recurrendum est ad extraordinarium quando non valet ordinarium.
We must have recourse to an extraordinary thing, when an
ordinary one does not avail us.
Reddere, nihil aliud est quam acceptum restituere: seu, reddere est
quasi retro dare; et redditur dicitur a redeundo, quia retro it.
To render is nothing else than to restore what is received;
or to render is, as it were, to give back; and it is called
render from returning, because it goes back.
Regis curia et curia populi Anglicani sive parliamentum non ex scripto
sed ex communi lege sunt.
The court of the king, and the court house of the people of
England, or the Parliament, are not according to written,
but according to common law.
Regula est quæ rem quæ est breviter enarrat, non ut ex regula jus
sumatur, sed ex jure, quod est, regula fiat. Per regulam igitur brevis
rerum narratio traditur, et quasi causæ conjectio est, quæ, simul cum
in aliquo vitiata est, perdit officium suum.
The rule is that which briefly relates the matter, not that
law may be taken from a rule, but that which is of the law
may be made a rule. By a rule, therefore, a short relation
of things is delivered and there is, as it were, a summary
account of the cause, which at the same time, when it is
corrupted, loses its office.
Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda.
A bargain is not regularly valid concerning the
non-alienation of my property.
Relatio est fictio juris et intenta ad unum.
Reference is the supposition of the law, and made to one
case.
Remoto impedimento emergit actio.
An impediment being removed, an action emerges.
Repellitur a sacramento infamis.
An infamous person is repelled from the sacrament and oath
of allegiance.
Reputatio est vulgaris opinio ubi non est veritas. Et vulgaris opinio
est duplex, _scil._ opinio vulgaris orta inter graves et discretos
homines, et quæ vultum veritatis habet; et opinio tantum orta inter
leves et vulgares homines, absque specie veritatis.
A report is common opinion, where there is not truth; and
opinion is twofold, viz. a common opinion arises between
prudent and discreet men, which has the appearance of
truth, and opinion only arises between giddy and vulgar
men, without the appearance of truth.
Rerum ordo confunditur, si unicuique jurisdictio non conservatur.
The order of things is confounded, if jurisdiction is not
preserved to every one.
Rerum suarum quilibet est moderator et arbiter.
Every one is the ruler and umpire of his own affairs.
Res est misera ubi jus est vagum et incertum.
It is a wretched circumstance, when the law is vague and
uncertain.
Res, generalem habet significationem, quia tam corporea quam
incorporea, cujuscunque sunt generis, naturæ sive speciei, comprehendit.
A thing has a general signification, because it comprehends
corporeal, as well as incorporeal circumstances, of
whatever kind, nature and species it may be.
Res inter alios acta, aliis non nocet.
A matter performed among some persons, does not hurt others.
Res inter alios acta, alteri nocere non debet.
A matter performed among some persons, ought not to hurt
another.
Res inter alios acta, aliis neque nocet neque prodest.
A thing done among some persons, does neither harm nor good
to others.
Res judicata pro veritate accipitur.
A matter judged, is taken for truth.
Res judicata pro veritate habetur.
A thing decided is received for truth.
Res judicata inter alios, aliis neque nocet neque prodest.
A thing decided between some, neither hurts nor does good
to others.
Res stulta est nequitiæ modus.
Moderation in wickedness is a foolish thing.
Rescriptum Principis contra jus non valet.
The rescript of the prince, is not valid against the law.
Reservatio ut et protestatio non facit jus, sed tuetur.
Neither reservation, nor protestation, makes law, but
maintains it.
Resoluto enim jure dantis, resolvitur jus accipientis.
For the right of the giver being dissolved, the right of
the receiver is dissolved.
Respiciendum est judicanti, ne quid aut durius aut remissius
constituatur quam causa deposcit; nec enim aut severitatis aut
clementiæ gloria affectanda est.
It is necessary for a judge to consider that nothing be
determined either more severely or more easily, than the
cause demands, for neither the glory of severity, or
clemency is to be affected.
Respondeat raptor, qui ignorare non potuit quod pupillum alienum
abduxit.
Let a seducer, or violator, answer for it, who could not
have been ignorant that he hath carried off a minor, or
orphan.
Respondeat superior.
Let a superior answer.
Religio Christiana pars est legis Angliæ communis.
The Christian religion is part of the common law of England.
Rex ad justitiam faciendam non cogitur.
The king is not forced to do justice.
Rex est lex vivens. Rex est pater patriæ.
The king is a living law; the king is the father of his
country.
Rex est mista persona.
The king is a mixed character.
Rex est pater patriæ.
The king is the father of his country.
Rex ipse non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege, quia lex
facit regem: attribuat igitur rex, lege quod lex attribuit ei, viz.
dominationem et imperium. Non est enim Rex ubi dominatur voluntas et
non lex.
The king himself ought not to be under man, but under God
and the law; because the law makes the king, therefore let
the king give lawfully what the law hath given to him, viz.
dominion and authority; for it is not the will of the king
that rules, but the law.
Rex lege cadere non potest.
The king cannot fall in law.
Rex neque solvit damna in lege neque recipit.
The king neither pays losses, nor receives them in the law.
Rex nihil aliud est quam lex agens.
The king is nothing else than the acting law.
Rex nil dat nisi per recordum.
The king gives nothing, unless by record.
Rex nil potest jubere nisi per curiam legitime constitutam.
The king can order nothing, unless by parliament lawfully
constituted.
Rex non est ubi voluntas dominatur.
He is not a king, when his will domineers.
Rex non potest invitum civem regno depellere.
The king may not expel from the kingdom, a subject against
his will.
Rex non potest malum vel injuriam facere.
The king may do no evil or injustice.
Rex non potest subditum onerare impositionibus.
The king may not burden a subject with taxes.
Rex nunquam infra ætatem est.
The king is never below age.
Rex præsumitur in scrinio pectoris sui habere omnia jura.
The king is presumed to have all the laws in the recess of
his heart.
Rogationes, quæstiones, et positiones debent esse simplices.
Petitions, questions, and positions, ought to be simple.