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CUI LICET QUOD MAJUS, NON, DEBET QUOD MINUS EST NON LICERC Definition & Legal Meaning

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He who is allowed to do the greater ought not to be prohibited from doing the less. He who has authority to do the more important act ought not to be debarred from doing what is of less Importance. 4 Coke, 23.

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