In English law . Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government. Non jus ex regula, sed regula ex jure. The law does not arise from the rule (or maxim.) but the rule from the law. Tray. Lilt. Max. 384. Non jus, sed selsina, facit atipitem. Not right, but seisin, makes a stock. Fleta lib. 6, c. 2,
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