Legal maxim and Latin for an argument from impossibility is very strong in law. Generally this means that if there is only one way to understand something, such as a contract term, then that is used and understood as being the true intent of the maker of the contract even if it results in great inconveience. When there is an unambiguous intention of the maker or grantor, even … [Read more...]

A portion of the sea projecting inland, in which the tide ebbs and flows. 5 Coke, 107. An arm of the sea is considered as extending as far into the interior of a country as the water of fresh rivers is propelled backwards by the Ingress of the tide. Ang. Tide Waters, 73; Hubbard v. Hubbard, 8 N. Y. 196; Adams v. Pease, 2 Conn. 484; U. S. v. Grush, 5 Mason, 290, Fed. Cas. No. … [Read more...]

An argument arising from the inconvenience which the construction of the law would create, is to have effect only in a case where the law is doubtful where the law is certain, such an argument is of no force. … [Read more...]

Lat. Arms; weapons, offensive and defensive; armor; arms or cognizances of families. Anna Dare. To dub or make a knight. Anna molnta. Sharp weapons that cut, in contradistinction to such as are blunt, which only break or bruise. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 33, par., 6. Arma reversata. Reversed arms, a punishment for a traitor or felon. Cowell. Arma in armatos sumere jura sinnnt. The laws … [Read more...]

An ad hominem argument or attack. Latin for an argument to the man or directed to the person. See ad hominem. … [Read more...]