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JUDICES SELECTI Definition & Legal Meaning

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Lat. In the civil law. Select or selected judiccs or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3 Bl. Comm. 300. Judici offieium suum excedenti non paretur. A judge exceeding his office is not to be obeyed. Jenk. Cent. p. 139, case 84. Said of void judgments. Judici satis poena est, quod Deum hab- et ultorem. It is punishment enough for a judge that he has God as his aveuger. 1 Leon. 295.

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