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.
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.