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A madman is punished by his madness alone. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 15) It is a wretched state of slavery which subsists where the law is vague or uncertain. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 150) Law regards equity. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 151) The law pays regard to equity. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 151) There cannot be given a reason for all the things which have been established by our ancestors. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 157) They who seek a reason for everything subvert reason. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 157) Many things have been introduced into the common law, with a view to the public good, which are inconsistent with sound reason. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 158) The law is the more praised when it is approved by reason. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 159) The reason of the law ceasing, the law itself ceases. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 159) The cause ceases, the effect ceases. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 160) Not to appear is the same thing as not to be. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 165) A plea of the same matter the dissolution of which is sought ought not to be brought forward. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 166) An exception of the same thing whose avoidance is sought cannot be made. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 166) A conclusion as to the use of a thing from its abuse is invalid. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 17) Drunkenness both inflames and reveals every crime. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 17) He who sins when drunk shall be punished when sober. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 17) What is built upon land belongs to or goes with land. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 172) He to whom the greater is lawful ought not to be debarred from the less as unlawful. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 176) When more is done than ought to be done, that at least shall be considered as performed which should have been performed. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 177) That which is bad in its commencement improves not by lapse of time. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 178) Privilege is of no force against the commonwealth. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 18), also Bacon's Maxims (p. 32, reg. 5) Public necessity is greater than private. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 18), also Noy's Maxims (max. 34) That which ought not to be done, when done, is valid. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 182) Nothing that is inconvenient is lawful. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 186, 366) That consideration is strongest which determines in favor of religion. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 19) Displaying page 5 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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