- Ad impossibilia lex non cogit
- The law does not compel impossible things. A streetcar violates no law in failing to turn out for a truck. Commonwealth v Temple, 80 Mass (14 Gray) 69, 78.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
Ad impossibilia lex non cogit
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