Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant.
Right and fraud never abide together.
In the first edition of Black’s Law Dictionary, published in 1891, Henry Campbell remarked that the book contained “a complete collection of legal maxims”, adding: “These have not been grouped in one body, but distributed in their proper alphabetical order through the book, This is believed to be the more convenient arrangement”.
Well 100 years later and the new editors of the Black Law Dictionary has firmly placed it in the back of the book. Where is should never be seen, nor compared with Todays, legal interpretations, fore we might discover its real meaning.
The present Editor, Bryan A. Garner, states, “spreading latin sentences throughout the book is decidedly inconvenient for most dictionary users today.” Perhaps, for regular dictionaries, but certainly not legal, were its initial language was Latin.
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