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Lawful acts are well mingled, unless some form of law forbid. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Maxims (p. 94, reg. 24) In law, the proximate, and not the remote, cause is regarded. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Maxims (reg. 1) Lawful commands receive a strict interpretation, but unlawful command a broad and extended one. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Maxims (reg. 16) An act already begun, the completion of which depends on the will of the parties, may be revoked; but if it depend on the will of a third person, or on a contingency, it cannot be revoked. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Maxims (reg. 20) Words are to be taken so that they may have some effect. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Works (4, 258) Law favoreth life, liberty and dower. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Works (4, 345) It is a greater crime to kill one's self than another. - Legal Maxim, Bart Maxims (108) He who has the dominion or advantage has the risk. - Legal Maxim, Bart Maxims (33) The law of England rules that the offspring shall always follow the condition of the father, never that of the mother. - Legal Maxim, Bart Maxims (59) The welfare of the people is the supreme law. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 1-10), also Bacon's Maxims (reg. 12) Where there is the same reason, there is the same law, and the same judgment should be rendered on the same state of facts. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 103) The less authority is merged in the greater. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 111) No man ought to be his own judge, or to administer justice in cases where his relations are concerned. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 116, 124) No one can be at once suitor and judge. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 117) Obedience to existing laws is a sufficient extenuation of guilt before a civil trial. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 12) In the fiction of law there is always equity. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 127, 130) A legal fiction does not properly work loss or injury. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 129) No one is considered to act with guild who uses his own right. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 130) The trodden path is the safest. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 134) He who is silent is supposed to consent. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 138, 787) Common error sometimes passes current as law. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 139, 140) Necessity defends or justifies what it compels. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 14) To declare the law, not to make it. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 140) So, the law will not, in general, notice the fraction of a day. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 142) Every innovation occasions more harm by its novelty than benefit by its utility. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 147) Displaying page 4 of 18 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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