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LEGAL MAXIM
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He acts with guile who demands that which he will have to return.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 346)
        [Legal Maxims]

He who is before in time is the better in right.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 353-362)
        [Legal Maxims]

That which is the property of nobody belongs to our lord the king.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 354)
        [Legal Maxims]

He who is first in time is preferred in right.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 354, 358)
        [Legal Maxims]

He who uses his legal rights harms no one.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 379)
        [Legal Maxims]

The law favors not the wishes of the dainty.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 379)
        [Legal Maxims]

One wrong does not justify another.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 395)
        [Legal Maxims]

Everything which is built upon the soil belongs to the soil.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 401)
        [Legal Maxims]

Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 401-431)
        [Legal Maxims]

The character of a past offense is never aggravated by a subsequent act or matter.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 41)
        [Legal Maxims]

Whatever is built on ground given by will goes to the legatee.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 424)
        [Legal Maxims]

Laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 43)
        [Legal Maxims]

When in a will an ambiguous or even an erroneous expression occurs, it should be construed liberally and in accordance with what is thought probable meaning of the testator.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 437)
        [Legal Maxims]

An argument drawn from things commonly happening is frequent in law.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 44)
        [Legal Maxims]

Custom gives law to the gift.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 459)
        [Legal Maxims]

It is the tenor which regulates its effect and extent.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 459)
        [Legal Maxims]

The bestower of a gift has a right to regulate its disposal.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 459, 461, 463, 464) [Legal Maxims]

A particular case, left unprovided for by statute, must be disposed of according to the law as it existed prior to such statute.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 46)
        [Legal Maxims]

Legislators pass over when happens once or twice.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 46)
        [Legal Maxims]

That which is mine cannot be lost or transferred to another without my alienation or forfeiture.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 465)
        [Legal Maxims]

He who has not does not give.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 467)
        [Legal Maxims]

The right of the grantor being extinguished, the right granted is extinguished.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 467)
        [Legal Maxims]

No one can transfer more right to another than he has himself.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 467, 469)
        [Legal Maxims]

Whoever grants anything to another is supposed to grant that also without which the thing itself would be of no effect.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 479)
        [Legal Maxims]

When anything is granted, that also is granted without which the thing granted cannot exist.
      - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 483)
        [Legal Maxims]


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