Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due. — Justinian I
Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.
In the original Latin
Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuens.
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Justinian. Justinian's Institutes, translated by Peter Birks and Grant McLeod. Cornell University Press, 1987, bk. 1, ch. 1, para. 1.
Original citation
Justinian. "Institutiones Justinani [Institutes of Justinian]." Corpus Iurus Civilis [Body of Civil Law]. c. 533, b. 1, ch. 1, para. 1.
