Non verbis sed rebus

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I stumbled across this legal maxim:

leges non verbis sed rebus sunt impositae = "laws are imposed on things, not words."
http://books.google.com/books?id=x3c8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA598

I had come across the non verbis sed rebus part before as the inspiration for the word "rebus," which is communication not by words but by things.
 
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