legal maxim

There's an old legal maxim that "hard cases make bad law."

Hard cases make bad law is an adage or legal maxim.

Thus the legal maxim, "there is no law without a sovereign."

A legal maxim is an established principle or proposition.

Full functional literacy for court purposes would seem to require a higher level, short of the ability to understand legal maxims.

The legal maxim "ignorance of the law is no excuse" still applies on adjudications.

Legal Maxims (1845) gained wide circulation as an established text-book for students.

Judge Williams based his new decision on a legal maxim, noscitur a sociis, or "a word is known by the company it keeps."

But when dealing with such situations, we ought to remind ourselves of the old legal maxim: we do not make law based on hard cases.

Latin legal maxims (called brocards) were compiled for guidance.

The term is used in legal terminology and legal maxims ("legal Latin").

- Roman legal maxim.

On that basis, applying the legal maxim of res ipsa loquitur, the defendants were found negligent.

It's tempting to ask why a judge did not call on the Latin legal maxim that says "the Law does not concern itself with trifles."

The thousand plus record of established legal maxims gives us an insight into the sub-language of the legal profession.

Mar Samuel amplified and expanded earlier legal theories and originated many new legal maxims.

Mastering legal maxims.

Sugar bowl (legal maxim)

Legal Maxims of the Talmud, ib.

This principle is commonly expressed by the popular legal maxim "rex non potest peccare," meaning "the king can do no wrong."

A well-known legal maxim says: De minimis non curat lex- "the law does not concern itself with trifles."

For example in the legal maxim: Lex posterior derogat priori which means a more recent law may overrule an earlier law.

Roman legal maxim THERE was the subdued rattle of manacles.

But there’s an old legal maxim, caveat emptor [buyer beware], and people do well to remember that.”

It is an old legal maxim that the public "has a right to every man's evidence," and courts have been reluctant to grant special privileges against compelled testimony.