Maxims

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1 Maxims on Law of Litigation

2 Maxims on Judges
3 Maxims on Torts
4 Maxims on Administrative Law
5 Maxims on Crime
6 Maxims on Equity
7 Other Maxims
8 Terms / Phrases of other languages used in Law
9 Related Topics

Maxims on Law of Litigation

audi alteram partem

Allegans contraria non est audiendus

Interest republicae ut sit fines litium

Vigilantibus non dormantibus jura subvenient

Ubi remedium ibi ius

Law delationes semer exhorret - Law always disgusts delay

Nulli differemus justitiam - Justice should not be delayed to any person

Dilationes in lege sunt odiosae - Delays in law are hateful

Ignorantia juris neminem excusat - Ignorance of the law excuses no one

Maxims on Judges

Ignorantia judicis est calamitas innocentis - The ignorance of a Judge is the misfortune of the
innocent

Maxims on Torts

injure non remota causa and proxima spectatur - the law takes into consideration only the
proximate cause and not the remote one

Maxims on Administrative Law

Respondeat superior - Let the principal be liable

Quifacit per alium facit per se - He who acts through another does it himself

Maxims on Crime

Actus non facit reum nisi

Nemo moriturus praesumitur mentire

Maxims on Equity

Equity will not suffer a wrong to be without remedy.

Equity follows the Law

He who seeks equity must do equity

He who comes into equity must come with clean hands.

Delay defeats Equity.

Equality is Equity

Equity looks to the intent rather to the form

Equity looks on that as done which ought to have been done.

Equity imputes an intention to fulfill obligation.

Equity acts in personam.

Where the equities are equal, the first in time shall prevail.

Where there is equal equity, the law shall prevail.

Other Maxims

Pacta sunt servanda

Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua propria

Commodum ex injuria sua nemo habere debet

Allegans suam turpitudinem non est audiendus

Terms / Phrases of other languages used in Law

ultra vires

mens rea - criminal intent

actus reus - result of human conduct that law seeks to prevent

ex aequo et bono

amicus curiae - friend of court

amiable compositeur

volenti non-fit injuria

ipso facto

estoppel

res sub judice

res judicta

strictu sensu - in strict sense

contra bonos mores

damnum sine injuria

jus necessitatis

la principe de legalite

ex parte

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