Maxim
Cadit Quaestio
Question falls/ argument collapses
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Legal Maxims
Latin and common-law maxims, with their literal meaning and how they are applied. · 141 legal maxims
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Prohibition
To forbid or to stop. It is popularly known as ‘Stay Order’.
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Ab Extra
From without, from the outside
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Per Minas
By means of menaces or threats
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Persona Non Grata
Person not welcome
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Nolle Prosequi
Unwilling to pursue
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Animus Nocendi
Mind to Harm
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Contemporanea Expositio Est Optima Et Fortissmo in Lege
The best way to construe a document is to read it as it would be read when it was made.
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Allegans Contraria Non-Est Audiendus
A person making contradictory allegations are not to be heard
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Nova Constitutio Futuris Formam Imponere Debet, Non Praeteritis
A new law ought to regulate what is to follow, not the past.
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Pari Materia
Of the same matter; on the same subject
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Vigilantibus Non Dormientibus Jura Subveniunt
The law assists only those who are vigilant, and not those who sleep over their rights.
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