12 Impossibilium Nulla Obligatio Est
D. 50. 17. 185.
Otherwise: Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. Impossibility is an excuse for the non-performance of an obligation—a rule of limited application.
13 In Jure Non Remota Causa Sed Proxima Spectatur
Bacon’s Maxims of the Law, 1.
A man is not liable for all the consequences of his acts, but only for those which are natural and probable—that is to say, those which he foresaw or ought to have foreseen.