Long time and long usage, which exceeds the memory, is sufficient for law.
Lubricum linguæ non facile in pœnam est trahendum.
The slipperiness of the tongue is not easily to be drawn into punishment; or a lapsus linguæ, slips of the tongue, cannot be punished.
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Majus est delictum seipsum interficere quam alium.
It is a greater crime to kill ones-self, than to kill another.
Majus trahit ad se minus.
The greater draws the less to itself.
Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam.
Bad grammar does not vitiate a writ.