As this is of all cases the most important in practice, none can be fitter to test the general maxim.

The general legal maxim de minimis non curat lex has no place in the field of documentary credits.

But alas, amongst children, idiots, savages, and the grossly illiterate, what general maxims are to be found?

What use these general maxims or axioms have.

Are these general maxims of no use?

When building a corpus of text the general maxim is that bigger is better.

'He once wrote: 'Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

His whole conduct is regulated according to some general maxims early implanted in his mind.

The general maxim of the law is that what is annexed to the land becomes part of the land.

Upon the whole, such taxes, are, perhaps, as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation as any other.