1. The law delights in equity; it covets perfection; it is a rule of right.

2. The law always abhors delay.

3. The law presumes that one neighbor knows the actions of another
4. The law does not regard small matters.
5. The union of a man and a woman is of the law of nature.
6. Consent, not lying together, constitutes marriage.
7. Consent makes the law. A contract is a law between the parties, which
can acquire force only by consent.
8. A contemporaneous exposition is the best and most powerful in the
law. .
9. There is no disputing against or denying principles. .
10.

No prescription runs against a person unable to act.

11.

The law never suffers anything contrary to truth.

12.
But sometimes it allows a conclusive presumption in opposition
to truth.
13.

The agreement of the parties makes the law of the contract.

14.
A contract founded on a base and unlawful consideration, or
against good morals, is null
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law.

The agreement of the parties overcomes or prevails against the

16.

An execution is the end and the first fruit of the law. .

17.

The execution of the law causes no injury.

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law.

Examples illustrate and do not restrict the law.

One out of the pale of the law, (an outlaw,) is civilly dead.
Vainly does he who offends against the law, seek the help of the

21.
In a deed which may be considered good or bad, the law looks
more to the good than to the bad
22.
Intentions ought to be subservient to the laws, not the laws to
intentions.
23.

The law would rather tolerate a private wrong than a public evil.

24.
The law presumes that one neighbor knows the actions of
another.
25.
The law judges of things, which must necessarily be done, as if
actually done.
26.

The law of necessity is the law of time, that is, time present.

27.

The forces no one to do vain or useless things.

28.

The law does wrong to no one.

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The law never works an injury, or does him a wrong.

30.

The forces not to impossibilities.

31.
The law commands not useless things, because useless labor is
foolish.
32.
The law does not require that to be proved, which is apparent to
the court.
33.

The law is the more praised when it is consonant to reason.

34.

The law looks forward, not backward.

35.

The law punishes falsehood.

36.
The law rejects superfluous, contradictory and incongruous
things.
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The law dislikes delay.

The law always gives a remedy.

39.

The law regards the order of nature.

40.

The laws succor the ignorant.

41.

The law always intends what is agreeable to reason. .

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The law speaks to all with one mouth. .

Liberty is an inestimable good. .
The body of a freeman does not admit of valuation.

45.
Although the grant of a future interest is inoperative, yet a
declaration precedent may be made, which may take effect, provided a
new act intervene.
46.
Things permitted should be well contrived, lest the form of the
law oppose.
47.

The right line is always preferred to the collateral.

48.

The place of the contract governs the act.

49.

Long possession is the law of peace.

50.

Necessity is the law of a particular time and place.

51.

The laws consist not in being read, but in being understood.

52.

Obedience is the essence of the law.

53.

He acts prudently who obeys the commands of the law

54.
What is reasonable time, the law does not define; it is left to the
discretion of the judges.
55.
A defect in the provision of the party is supplied by a provision of
the law.
56.
When two different acts are required to the formation of an
estate, the law chiefly regards the original act.

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When two rights concur in one person, it is the same as if they
were in two separate persons. .
58.

When the law gives anything, it gives the means of obtaining it.

59.
What is done contrary to the law is considered as not done. No
one can derive any advantage from such an act.
60.
What has been admitted against the spirit of the law, ought not
to be heard.
61.

In default of the law, the maxim rules.

62.
To know the laws, is not to observe their mere words, but their
force and power.
63.

The meaning of words is the spirit of the law.

64.

Simplicity is favorable to the law.

65.

Where the law is uncertain, there is no law.

66.
Where the law compels a man to show cause, the cause ought to
be just and legal. .
67.
Where the law is special and the reason of it is general, it ought
to be taken as being general.
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69.

Where the law does not distinguish, we ought not to distinguish.

Where is the greater part, there is the whole. Moor, 578.

70.
When the law fails to serve as a rule, almost everything ought to
be suspected. ,
71.
A verdict is, as it were, the saying of the truth, in the same
manner that a judgment is the saying of the law.
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From the words of the law, there must be no departure.

The act of the law does no one an injury.