2. A contemporaneous exposition is best and most powerful in law.

3. The best interpreter of law is custom.

5. The best interpreter of things is usage.
7. What is not valid in the beginning does not become valid by time
10. It is in the interest of the state that there be an end to litigation.
13. There should be no departure from the words of the legislature.
17. An absolute judgment needs no expositor.
18. The law may be harsh but its still the law.
19. It is exceedingly hard but so the law is written.
20. Equity never contradicts the law.
23. Reason of the law is its soul.
25. Words ought to be more subservient to the intent and not the intent to the words.
27. He who stices to the letter, sticks to the bark.
29. When the reason of the law ceases, the law itself ceases.
30. When there is ambiguity, such interpretation will avoid inconvenience and absurdity is to be
adopted.
35. When there is the same reason, then the law is the same, and the same judgment should be
rendered as to similar things.

46. What is useful is not vitiated by the useless.
50. Exception to the general rule.
57. Necessity of Law
60. When there is right, there is a remedy.
62. A right of action cannot arise out of fraud.
63. No one can derive an advantage from his own wrong.
64. When the parties are equally in the wrong condition of the possessor is better.
65. What cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.
66. A general rule is to be generally understood.
68. A word is to be understood in the context that it is used.
72. When the law does not distinguish, the court should not distinguish.
74. Construed with the words which it is associated.
75. Give effect to both particular and general words by treating the same.
76. Express mention of one person, thing or consequence implies the exclusion of all others.
77. Express puts an end to what is implied.
79. A person or thing omitted must have been omitted intentionally.
80. Relative words refer to the nearest antecedent unless context otherwise requires.
81. Referring each to each
82. General expression followed by exceptions therefrom implies not falling under the scope of general
expression.
83. The best interpreter of a statute is the statute itself.
89. A law should be interpreted with a view to upholding rather than destroying it.
96. The welfare of the people is the supreme law.
107. Law should be prospective not retroactive.
111. There is no crime when there is no law punishing it.
115. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.