LEGAL MAXIM
A legal maxim is an established principle or proposition of law that is universally admitted as being just and
consonant. They are principles and authorities, and part of the general customs or common law of the land
LEGAL MAXIM
• ACTUS NON FACIT REUM NISI MENS SIT REA
• The act is not Guilty Unless the mind is Guilty.
• AD VALOREM
• According to value
• AMICUS CURIAE
• Friend of the court.
• AUDI ALTERAM PARTUM
• Hearing the both sides.
• ASSENTIO MENTIUM
• Meeting of minds or mutual consent.
LEGAL MAXIM
• BONA FIDE
• In good faith.
• BONA VACANTIA
• The situation in which property is left without any clear owner.
• CAVEAT EMPTOR
• Let the buyer beware.
• CORPUS DELICTO
• A person cannot be put on trial for a crime unless it has been proven that the crime happened.
• DAMNUM SINE INJURIA
• Damage without infringement of legal right.
• DE DIE IN DIEM
• From day to day
LEGAL MAXIM
• DOLI INCAPAX
• In Capable of criminal intent
REVISION IS KEY
LEGAL MAXIM
• DE MINIMIS LEX NON CURAT
• Law is not concerned with small things.
• EJUSDEM GENERIS
• Of the same kind.
• EX POST FACTO
• Having retrospective effect or force.
• IGNORANTIA FACTI EXCUSAT IGNORANTIA JURIS NON EXUSAT
• Ignorance of law is no excuse
• INJURIA SINE DAMNUM
• Injuria without damage
LEGAL MAXIM
• LOCUS STANDI
• The right or capacity to bring an action or to appear in a court.
• NEMO DEBET ESSE JUDEX IN PROPRIA SUA CAUSA
• No own should be made a judge in his own case.
• NEMO DEBT NON QUAD HABIT
• No one can give what he does not have.
• NOSCITUR A SOCIIS
• A doctrine or rule of construction
• OBITER DICTA
• Other things said
LEGAL MAXIM
• PARI MATERIA
• Dealing with same matter or subject.
• PER INCURIAM
• Through lack of due regard to the law or the facts
• QUI FACIT PER ALIUM FACIT PER SE
• He who acts through another does the act himself.
• QUID PRO QUO
• Something for something.
• RATIO DECIDENDI
• The rationale for the decision.
LEGAL MAXIM
• RES IPSA LOQUITUR
• The application of which shifts the burden on the defendant.
• RES JUDICATA ACCIPITUR PRO VERITATE
• A judgement should be accepted as correct.
• SALUS POPULI EST SUPREME LEX
• The welfare of people is the supreme law.
• STARE DECISIS
• To Stand by things decided.
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