Legal Maxim
Legal Maxim
A legal maxim is an established principle or proposition. The Latin term, apparently a variant on maxima, is not to be found in Roman law with any meaning exactly analogous to that of a legal maxim in the Medieval or modern sense of the word, but the treatises of many of the Roman jurists on Regular definitiones, and Sententiae juris are, in some measure, collections of maxims. Most of the Latin maxims developed in the Medieval era in European countries...
action arises bare cause promise
No cause of action arises from a bare promise
against duty law nature promise void
A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature
art believed reference skilled
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art
abstract benefit harm innovation occasions order utility
Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility
justice prevents rather severity
Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity
drunk punished sins sober
Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober
partner
The partner of my partner is not my partner
choice
When one divides, the other should have the right of first choice
against man
No man can make another a debtor against his will
man
No man can give what he has not
certain
That is sufficiently certain which can be made certain
causes greatest law strictly wrong
Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong
agreement cannot changed private public
A public right cannot be changed by private agreement
attorney collecting fee ignorance law losing prevent
Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee