To do justice is royal power.
Potior est conditio possidentis.
The condition of a possessor is preferable.
Potius est privatum incommodum quam publicum malum.
A private inconvenience, is better than a public evil.
Potentia debet sequi justitiam, non antecedere.
Power ought to follow justice, not to go before it.
Potestas suprema seipsum dissolvere potest, ligare non potest.
The supreme power can dissolve itself; it cannot bind itself.
Præscriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab authoritate legis.