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You must receive the merchandise when the seller says you will.
If you are not…
The jointed two-foot rule used by builders and invented by Vincent Scammozzi, the famous Italian architect. (1540-1609.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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(The). A post facto law. Making an act the precedent for a rule of conduct, instead of squaring conduct according to law Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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Citing the possession of weapons of mass destruction, links to terrorism, and Saddam Hussein's despotism as the casus belli for “regime change” in Iraq, President George W. Bush…
They prove there is a rule, or there could be no exceptions; the very fact of exceptions proves there must be a rule. “Exceptio probat regulam.” —Columella. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
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