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No one can be at once suitor and judge. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 117) [Legal Maxims] Obedience to existing laws is a sufficient extenuation of guilt before a civil trial. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 12) [Legal Maxims] In the fiction of law there is always equity. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 127, 130) [Legal Maxims] A legal fiction does not properly work loss or injury. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 129) [Legal Maxims] No one is considered to act with guild who uses his own right. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 130) [Legal Maxims] The trodden path is the safest. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 134) [Legal Maxims] He who is silent is supposed to consent. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 138, 787) [Legal Maxims] Common error sometimes passes current as law. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 139, 140) [Legal Maxims] Necessity defends or justifies what it compels. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 14) [Legal Maxims] To declare the law, not to make it. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 140) [Legal Maxims] So, the law will not, in general, notice the fraction of a day. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 142) [Legal Maxims] Every innovation occasions more harm by its novelty than benefit by its utility. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 147) [Legal Maxims] A madman is punished by his madness alone. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 15) [Legal Maxims] It is a wretched state of slavery which subsists where the law is vague or uncertain. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 150) [Legal Maxims] Law regards equity. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 151) [Legal Maxims] The law pays regard to equity. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 151) [Legal Maxims] There cannot be given a reason for all the things which have been established by our ancestors. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 157) [Legal Maxims] They who seek a reason for everything subvert reason. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 157) [Legal Maxims] Many things have been introduced into the common law, with a view to the public good, which are inconsistent with sound reason. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 158) [Legal Maxims] The law is the more praised when it is approved by reason. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 159) [Legal Maxims] The reason of the law ceasing, the law itself ceases. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 159) [Legal Maxims] The cause ceases, the effect ceases. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 160) [Legal Maxims] Not to appear is the same thing as not to be. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 165) [Legal Maxims] A plea of the same matter the dissolution of which is sought ought not to be brought forward. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 166) [Legal Maxims] An exception of the same thing whose avoidance is sought cannot be made. - Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 166) [Legal Maxims] Displaying page 5 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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