An edict in the Roman law, in the 25 book of the digests, title 4, section 10 as concerning the visiting of a big-bellied woman, and the looking after what may be born by her.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
Cum voluntas, & consilium, & sententia interdicti, intelligatur, impudentiam sum∣mam, aut stultitiam singularem putabimus in verborum errore versari, rem & causam & utilitatem communem non relinquere solum, sed etiam prodere.—Juris igitur retineri sententiam, & aequitatem pluri∣mum valere, oportere, an verbo ac litera jus omne torqueri, vos statuite utrum uti∣lius esse videatur?
