Thursday, April 2, 2009
"The exception proves the rule."
That is an expression that is not so nonsensical after all, as Ray Ward notes and links here, to this excellent Snopes reference. It is just a tad incomplete but really makes a valid legal point.
[Alan Childress]
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_profession/2009/04/the-exception-proves-the-rule.html