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CULPA TENET [TENEAT] SUOS AUCTORES Definition & Legal Meaning

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Misconduct binds [should bind] its own authors. It is a never-failing axiom that every one is accountable only for his own delicts. Ersk. Inst 4, 1, 14.

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