Legal Definition and Related Resources of Apex juris
Meaning of Apex juris
(Lat. the summit of the law). A rule of law of extreme refinement. A term used to denote a stricter application of the rules of law than is indicated by the phrase awmmMTO Jits. 2 Caines (N. Y.) 117; 2 Story (U.S.) 143; 5 Conn. 334; 2 Pars. Notes & Bills, c. 25, § 11. See, also, Co. Litt. 3046; Wingate, Max. 19.
What does Apex juris mean in American Law?
The definition of Apex juris in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
The “summit of the law,” referring either to a point of great cunning, subtlety, complexity, or technicality, what the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe delightedly calls “a nice point,” or to an extraordinary level of rigor, rigidity, or harshness in the law. (For this second branch of meaning “summum jus” is sometimes used, but it may connote something somewhat less extreme.) In either case, the argument hidden in the use of the term is “that can’t be the law,” i.e., that the point is too clever, amounting almost to sharp practice, or just too harsh. The plural form is “apices juris.” A term with essentially similar import is “apex [pl. “apices”] litigandi,” i.e., “summit of litigation.”
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Concept of “Apex Juris”
Traditional meaning of apex juris in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A subtlety of law. Apices juris non sunt jura: the mere subtleties of law are not law; see 5 Conn. 334.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Apex Juris”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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