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JUDICES SELECTI

Latin: In the civil law. Select or selected judiees or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3 Bl. Comm. 366. Judici officium suum excedenti non paretur. A judge exceeding his office is not to be obeyed. Jenk. Cent p. 139, case 84. Said of void judgments. Judici satis poena est quod Deum habet ultorem. It is punishment enough for a judge that he has God as his avenger. 1 Leon. 295.

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