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LEGAL MAXIMS
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No one shall take advantage of his own wrong.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 290)

No one maintains an action arising out of his own wrong.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 297)

The intent and the act must both concur to constitute crime.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 306)

Laws do not undertake to punish other than outward actions.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 311)

The intention is to be taken for the deed.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 311)

To write is to act.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 312, 967)

A madman has no will.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 314)

In nearly all penal judgments, immaturity of age and imbecility of mind are favored.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 314)

Malice supplies age.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 316)

In evil deeds regard must be had to the intention, and not to the result.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 324)

That may excuse or palliate a wrongful act in capital cases which would not have the same effect in civil injuries.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 324)

No man can change his purpose to another's injury.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 34)

A new state of law ought to affect the future, not the past.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 34, 37)

He acts with guile who demands that which he will have to return.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 346)

He who is before in time is the better in right.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 353-362)

That which is the property of nobody belongs to our lord the king.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 354)

He who is first in time is preferred in right.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 354, 358)

He who uses his legal rights harms no one.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 379)

The law favors not the wishes of the dainty.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 379)

One wrong does not justify another.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 395)

Everything which is built upon the soil belongs to the soil.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 401)

Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 401-431)

The character of a past offense is never aggravated by a subsequent act or matter.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 41)

Whatever is built on ground given by will goes to the legatee.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 424)

Laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur.
      - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims
         (max. 43)


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