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  2. Legal maxim - Wikipedia

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    A legal maxim is an established principle or proposition of law, and a species of aphorism and general maxim.The word is apparently a variant of the Latin maxima, but this latter word is not found in extant texts of Roman law with any denotation exactly analogous to that of a legal maxim in the Medieval or modern definition, but the treatises of many of the Roman jurists on regular ...

  3. Everything which is not forbidden is allowed - Wikipedia

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    In international law, the principle is known as the Lotus principle, after a collision of the S.S. Lotus in international waters. The Lotus case of 1926–1927 established the freedom of sovereign states to act as they wished, unless they chose to bind themselves by a voluntary agreement or there was an explicit restriction in international law ...

  4. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    An example is law prohibiting genocide. jus gentium: law of nations Customary law followed by all nations. Nations being at peace with one another, without having to have an actual peace treaty in force, would be an example of this concept. jus in bello: law in war Laws governing the conduct of parties in war. jus inter gentes: law between the ...

  5. Justice delayed is justice denied - Wikipedia

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    "Delays in the law are hateful" – In diem vivere in lege sunt detestabilis – is a Latin legal maxim. [15] On the other hand, "No delay [in law] is long concerning the death of a man," is another Latin lawyer's aphorism. [15] And, "It is not to be imagined, that the King will be guilty of vexatious delays." [16]

  6. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  7. Maxims of equity - Wikipedia

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    Maxims of equity are legal maxims that serve as a set of general principles or rules which are said to govern the way in which equity operates. They tend to illustrate the qualities of equity, in contrast to the common law, as a more flexible, responsive approach to the needs of the individual, inclined to take into account the parties' conduct and worthiness.

  8. Glossary of law - Wikipedia

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    At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione firmae) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages for the unlawful detention of its possession. The action was highly fictitious, being in theory only for the recovery of a term for years, and brought by a ...

  9. Nemo auditur propriam turpitudinem allegans - Wikipedia

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    Nemo auditur propriam turpitudinem allegans is a civil law maxim [1] which may be translated into English as "no one can be heard to invoke his own turpitude" [2] or "no one shall be heard, who invokes his own guilt". [3]