Cessante ratione legis cessat, et ipsa lex
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Where the reason for the existence of a law ceases, the law itself should also cease. The maxim means that no common-law rule can survive the reasons on which it is founded. It needs no statute to change
it; it abrogates itself. If the reasons on which a law rests are overborne by opposing reasons, which, in the progress of society, gain controlling force, the old law, though still good as an abstract principle, and good in its application to some circumstances, must cease to apply or to be a controlling principle to the new circumstances. Beardsley v Hartford, 50 Conn 542.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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