Latin: Possibility; power. Potentia propinqua. Common possibility. See Possibility. Potentia debet sequi justitiam, non antecedere. 3 Bulst 199. Power ought to follow justice, not go before it Potentia est duplex, remota et propin qua; et potentia remotissima et vana est quae nunquam venit in actum. 11 Coke, 51. Possibility is of two kinds, remote and near; that which never comes into action is a power the most remote and vain. Potentia inutilis frustra est. Useless power is to no purpose. Branch, Princ.