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What otherwise is good and just, if it be aimed at by fraud or violence, becomes evil and unjust. - [Force] When the death of a human being may be the consequence, no delay that is afforded is long. - [Delay] When the foundation fails, all fails. - [Legal Maxims] Where the law is uncertain, there is no law. - [Legal Maxims] You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.] - [Crime : Legal Maxims] The people is the greatest master of error. - Bacon [Legal Maxims] The power of law is suspended during war. - Bacon [Legal Maxims] An exception affirms the rule in cases not excepted. - Bacon's Aphorisms (17) [Legal Maxims] An exception proves an opposite rule. - Bacon's Aphorisms (17) [Legal Maxims] The exception also declares the rule. - Bacon's Aphorisms (17) [Legal Maxims] When the law fails to serve as a rule, almost everything ought to be suspected. - Bacon's Aphorisms (25) [Legal Maxims] Beware of fragments. - Bacon's Aphorisms (26) [Legal Maxims] That law is best which leaves least discretion of the judge; that judge is the best who leaves least to his own. - Bacon's Aphorisms (46) [Legal Maxims] That law is the best which leaves the least discretion to the judge; and this is an advantage which results from certainty. - Bacon's Aphorisms (8) [Legal Maxims] A court has nothing to do with what is not before it. - Bacon's Maxims [Legal Maxims] Necessity excuses or extenuates a delinquency in capital cases, which has not the same operation in civil cases. - Bacon's Maxims [Legal Maxims] That which is first in intention is last in operation. - Bacon's Maxims [Legal Maxims] That which is otherwise not permitted, necessity permits; and necessity makes a privilege as to private rights. - Bacon's Maxims [Legal Maxims] The consequence of a consequence exists not. - Bacon's Maxims [Legal Maxims] True identity is collected from a multitude of signs. - Bacon's Maxims [Legal Maxims] Words are to be received with effect, so that they may product effect. - Bacon's Maxims [Legal Maxims] From a great number of signs or marks, true identity is gathered or made up. - Bacon's Maxims (103, reg. 25) [Legal Maxims] Words are to be taken most strongly against him who uses them. - Bacon's Maxims (11, reg. 3) [Legal Maxims] The law will not intend a wrong. - Bacon's Maxims (17, reg. 3) [Legal Maxims] The words are to be so understood, that the subject-matter may rather be of force than perish. - Bacon's Maxims (17, reg. 3) [Legal Maxims] Displaying page 3 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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