Legal Maxims

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 definitiones and sententiae iuris are to some degree collections of maxims. Most of the Latin maxims originate from the Medieval era in European states that used Latin as their legal …

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The South Centre · 11 October 2022 English

The nature of food security as part of the right to food is confirmed in Article 11.1 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) which …

the treaties apply. The ILC Report identifies legal maxims such as lex specialis (regarding relations between


JCCF: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms · 12 August 2022 English

What evidence should be considered for the purposes of the motion? [18] With respect to the so-called late filing of Affidavits, there is nothing in the Rules and nothing in …

significant that it is dealt with in Broom’s Legal Maxims under the law of contracts: it is never used


IAI: Istituto Affari Internazionali · 22 November 2021 English

After the subordination of the Khanates ofKazan and Astrakhan in the middle of the XVI century the dominant frames of mind and aspirations of Russian authorities (mostly and first of …

Al-Figh (Islamic legal value) and Quwa'id Al-Fiqh (legal maxims) clearly demonstrates the ability of the Moslems


MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 21 June 2021 English

The most recent of its delectable fruits is the book, Countering Islamic State Ideology: Voices of Singapore Scholars, which delivers religious counterpoints to the main conceptual themes of the IS …

civilians. This is in line with established legal maxims in Islamic jurisprudence that ‘al-wasaillaha


MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 21 June 2021 English

The most recent of its delectable fruits is the book, Countering Islamic State Ideology: Voices of Singapore Scholars, which delivers religious counterpoints to the main conceptual themes of the IS …

civilians. This is in line with established legal maxims in Islamic jurisprudence that ‘al-wasaillaha


CANLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute · 2021 English

father’s rights”. I have previously observed that legal maxims, short pithy restatements of what are purportedly case I observed that the usual source cited for legal maxims, Black’s Law Dictionary, itself recognizes


IRS: Institute of Regional Studies · 9 October 2020 English

In the case of most of the region encompassed by the mission of the Institute of Regional Studies, defined as South and Central Asia, religion and the role of Islam …

field of information ethics. He selects “Islamic legal maxims” that can possible be implemented in ICT. He


RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 13 April 2020 English

emergency, which required exceptional religious rulings to save lives. [...] Using the Islamic legal maxims of “emergencies permit the unlawful” and “harm must be eliminated”, the Fatwa Committee ascertained

religious rulings to save lives. Using the Islamic legal maxims of “emergencies permit the unlawful” and “harm


OSCE: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe · 29 January 2020 English

Since the expiry of the final deadline (conditional to the granting of the complaint) was included in the amended provisions as a grounds for closing an investigation – though the …

selection, drafting and systematization of the legal maxims. As pointed out by the Head of the Case- 23


BILIA: Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs · 23 December 2019 English

29 Goetz, Philip W., Editor in Chief 1988 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc 1083 15-2-89 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Guide to Britannica Goetz, Philip W., Editor in Chief 1988 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc …

Green & Co. Ltd. 941 5/4/1973 Law Lexicon & Legal Maxims, V. I (A-E) Venkataramaiya's 1980 Delhi Law House, Allahabad 814 6/8/1982 Law Lexicon & Legal Maxims, V. II (F-M) Venkataramaiya 1980 Delhi Law House House, Allahabad 815-1580 6/8/1982 Law Lexicon & Legal Maxims, V. III (N-S) Venkataramaiya 1980 Delhi Law Bhandar, Dhaka 286 2/12/2012 A Selection of Legal Maxims Broom, Herbert 2010 (Reprint) Universal Law


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