Benignius leges interpretandæ sunt, quo voluntas earum conservetur.
The laws are to be more favourably explained that their will or intention may be preserved.
Bis idem exegi bona fides non patitur; et in satisfactionibus, non permittitur amplius fieri quam semel factum est.
Honesty does not suffer the same thing to be exacted twice; and in satisfaction it is not granted that more be done than hath been once done.
Bona fides non patitur, ut bis idem exigatur.
Honesty does not permit the same thing to be exacted twice.
Bonæ fidei possessor, in id tantum quod ad se pervenerit, tenetur.
A bona fide possessor is bound only with respect to that which has come to him.
Boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem.
It is the property of a good judge to enlarge his jurisdiction.