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FILE NO. 0001 / FIRST DREAM

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Lex Aquila

CASE FILE — LEX AQUILA / OPENING

A neubrutalist law library suspended inside a cathedral of constellations.

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FILE NO. 0002 / CONTRACTS UNDER STARLIGHT

Pacta Sunt Servanda

Agreements must be kept — even by the sky.

CASE FILE — PACTA SUNT SERVANDA

“Where the heavens promise, the parchment binds; where the parchment is silent, the heavens are still bound.” — marginalia, anonymous casebook, c. 1887

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FILE NO. 0003 / A BODY IN TWILIGHT

Habeas Corpus

You shall have the body — produce it under the moon.

CASE FILE — HABEAS CORPUS

☆ Petitioner: a librarian, dreaming.
☆ Respondent: the night, custodian.
☆ Relief sought: that the body of the precedent be brought into the lamplit chamber.

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FILE NO. 0004 / THE FIXED STARS OF PRECEDENT

Stare Decisis

To stand by things decided.

CASE FILE — STARE DECISIS

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FILE NO. 0005 / MATTERS ALREADY ADJUDGED

Res Judicata

A thing decided shall not be decided again.

CASE FILE — RES JUDICATA

“Estoppel is the kindness the court extends to the past: it lets it remain past.” — Bench Notes, anonymous

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FILE NO. 0006 / THE DREAMING MIND

Mens Rea

A guilty mind — or merely a sleeping one.

CASE FILE — MENS REA

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FILE NO. 0007 / A FRESH SKY

De Novo

Anew — from the beginning — under a fresh sky.

CASE FILE — DE NOVO

☆ Standard of review: as if for the first time.
☆ Deference owed: none.
☆ Posture: looking up.

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FILE NO. 0008 / THE CLOSING CONSTELLATION

Sub Specie
Aeternitatis

Under the aspect of eternity.

CASE FILE — SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS

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