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HONESTE VIVERE Definition & Legal Meaning

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Lat. To live honorably, creditably, or virtuously. One of the threegeneral precepts to which Justinian reduced the whole doctrine of the law, (lust. 1, 1,3; Bract, fols. 3, 36,) the others being alterum non la-derc. (not to injure others,) andsuum caique tribucre, (to render to every man his due.)

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