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A trust is an obligation of conscience of one to the will of another. - Francis Bacon The king never dies. - Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries (IV, 249), (Latin), also Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 50) The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. - Lord Edward Coke, Reports, Semaynes' Case (vol. III, pt. V, p. 185), also found in Broom's Legal Maxims, max. 432 A public law or right cannot be altered by the agreements of private persons. - Legal Maxim Agreement makes law. - Legal Maxim An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation. - Legal Maxim Ancient custom is always held or regarded as law. - Legal Maxim Custom is held to be as a law. [Lat., Consuetudo pro lege servatur.] - Legal Maxim Custom is the best interpreter of laws. - Legal Maxim Deeds are more powerful than words. - Legal Maxim Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness. - Legal Maxim Equity favors wives and children, creditors most of all. - Legal Maxim Equity never counteracts the laws. - Legal Maxim From his silence a man's consent is inferred. - Legal Maxim Guilt makes equal those whom it stains. - Legal Maxim Hard cases make bad law. - Legal Maxim He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial. - Legal Maxim He is guilty of barratry who for money sells justice. - Legal Maxim He who comes into a court of equity must come with clean hands. - Legal Maxim He who committed inequity shall not have equity. - Legal Maxim He who flees judgment confesses his guilt. - Legal Maxim He who is first in time has the prior right. - Legal Maxim He who seeks equity must do equity. - Legal Maxim He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober. - Legal Maxim He who stands on his own rights injures no one. - Legal Maxim Displaying page 1 of 18 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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