General things are not derogatory to special.
Generalia sunt præponenda singularibus.
General things are to be preferred to single things.
Generalibus specialia derogant.
Special things are derogatory to general.
Generalis gratia proditionem et homicidium non excipit pœna.
General favour does not exempt treason and homicide from punishment.
Generaliter, cum de fraude disputatur, non quid habeat actor, sed quid per adversarium habere non potuerit, considerandum est.
When there is a dispute concerning fraud, we are to consider in general, not what the actor may have, but what he could not have had by his opponent.
Generaliter probandum est, ubicunque in bonæ fidei judiciis confertur, in arbitrium domini aut procuratoris ejus, conditio, pro boni viri arbitrio hoc habendum est.