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A fault finds its own authors. - [Faults] A good judge decides fairly, preferring equity to strict law. - [Equity] A public law or right cannot be altered by the agreements of private persons. - [Legal Maxims] Agreement makes law. - [Agreement : Legal Maxims] All men are equal before the natural law. [Lat., Quod ad jus naturale attinet, omnes homines aequales sunt.] - [Equality] An equal has no power over an equal. [Lat., Par in parem imperium non habet.] - [Equality] An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation. - [Legal Maxims : Proverbs] Ancient custom is always held or regarded as law. - [Legal Maxims] Custom is held to be as a law. [Lat., Consuetudo pro lege servatur.] - [Legal Maxims] Custom is the best interpreter of laws. - [Legal Maxims] Deeds are more powerful than words. - [Legal Maxims] Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness. - [Legal Maxims] Equity favors wives and children, creditors most of all. - [Legal Maxims] Equity never counteracts the laws. - [Legal Maxims] False in one thing, false in everything. [Lat., Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.] - [Lying] From his silence a man's consent is inferred. - [Legal Maxims : Proverbs] Guilt makes equal those whom it stains. - [Legal Maxims] Hard cases make bad law. - [Legal Maxims : Proverbs] He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial. - [Legal Maxims : Proverbs] He is guilty of barratry who for money sells justice. - [Legal Maxims] He who comes into a court of equity must come with clean hands. - [Legal Maxims] He who committed inequity shall not have equity. - [Legal Maxims] He who flees judgment confesses his guilt. - [Legal Maxims] He who is first in time has the prior right. - [Legal Maxims : Proverbs] He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.] - [Agriculture] Displaying page 1 of 18 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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