Definition and Citations:
Lat. (This indeed is exceedingly hard, but so the law is written; such is the written or positive law.) Anobservation quoted by Black- stone as used by Ulpian in tlie civil law; and applied tocases where courts of equity have no power to abate the rigor of the law. Dig. 40, 9,12, 1; 3 Bl. Comm. 430.