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That which cannot be done directly shall not be done indirectly. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 489) [Legal Maxims] The accessory follows the principal. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 491) [Legal Maxims] When the primitive or original estate determines, the derivative estate determines also. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 495) [Legal Maxims] When the principal does not hold, the incidents thereof ought to obtain. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 496) [Legal Maxims] Although the grant of a future interest be inoperative, yet a declaration precedent may be made, which may take effect provided a new act intervene. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 498), also Bacon's Maxims (pp. 60-61, reg. 14) [Legal Maxims] In England there is no interregnum. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 50) [Legal Maxims] Consent, and not cohabitation, constitutes nuptials or marriage, and persons cannot consent before marriageable years. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 505) [Legal Maxims] He who would have been heir to the father shall be heir to the son. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 517) [Legal Maxims] Movables follow the person. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 522) [Legal Maxims] It is not a mere right to enter on lands, but actual seisin, which makes a person the root or stock from which all future inheritance by right of blood must be derived. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 525, 527) [Legal Maxims] Seisin makes the stock. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 525, 528) [Legal Maxims] An inheritance never ascends. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 527, 528) [Legal Maxims] The right line is always preferred to the collateral. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 529) [Legal Maxims] When two rights concur in one person, it is the same as if they were in two separate persons. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 531) [Legal Maxims] The brother's possession of an estate in fee-simple makes the sister to be heir. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 532) [Legal Maxims] The right of blood and kindred cannot be destroyed by any civil law. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 533) [Legal Maxims] The interpretation of deeds is to be liberal, that the thing may rather have effect than fail. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 543) [Legal Maxims] In agreements, the intention of the contracting parties, rather than the words used, should be regarded. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 551) [Legal Maxims] In wills we more especially seek out the intention of the testator. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 555) [Legal Maxims] The last will of a testator is to be fulfilled according to his true intention. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 566) [Legal Maxims] In ambiguous expressions, the intention of the person using them is chiefly to be regarded. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 567) [Legal Maxims] We must never depart from the signification of words, unless it is evident that they are not conformable to the will of the testator. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 568) [Legal Maxims] In an ambiguous expression of law, that signification is to be preferred which is consonant with equity, especially when the spirit of the law can be collected from that. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 576) [Legal Maxims] Where two things repugnant to each other, are found in a will, the last shall stand. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 583) [Legal Maxims] Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 588) [Legal Maxims] Displaying page 9 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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