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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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 …
IHRP: International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto · 15 November 2013 English
The importance of the principle that the SIA negates is the essential context for a full understanding of the impact of the SIA on the appellant Hashemi and, accordingly, for …
“elementary maxim”, as discussed in Broom's Legal Maxims: UBI JUS IBI REMEDIUM.–There is no wrong without … [Allen]. 6 Ibid at para 36 (quoting Broom’s Legal Maxims, 10th ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1939) at …
IHRP: International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto · 15 November 2013 English
The importance of the principle that the SIA negates is the essential context for a full understanding of the impact of the SIA on the appellant Hashemi and, accordingly, for …
“elementary maxim”, as discussed in Broom's Legal Maxims: UBI JUS IBI REMEDIUM.–There is no wrong without … [Allen]. 6 Ibid at para 36 (quoting Broom’s Legal Maxims, 10th ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1939) at …
CAP: Clean Air Partnership · 11 July 2013 English
Regardless of the structure selected for undertaking the work, the participating municipality must ensure that it complies with the procedural requirements of the Regulation for the imposition of the special …
Sanagan's Encyclopedia of Words and Phrases Legal Maxims Canada, 5th ed. (Toronto: Thomson Reuters Canada …
CIAJ - ICAJ: Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice · 21 September 2012 English
In the words of Chief Justice Anglin: In considering this matter we are, of course, in no wise concerned with the desirability or the undesirability of the presence of women …
refers to The Encyclopedia of Words and Phrases Legal Maxims Canada 1825 to 1978, (3d ed., 1978). Gerald …
CIAJ - ICAJ: Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice · 26 May 2010 English
The judge’s life is a life of struggle — the struggle to decide fairly between contending parties and positions; and the struggle to explain the reasons for that decision, our …
than a cryptic collection of observations and legal maxims. It was sometimes difficult to make out what …
Union des consommateurs · 18 January 2010 English
The validity and effectiveness of arbitration as an alternative dispute-resolution method are now widely recognized and accepted, commercially and internationally. This dispute-resolution method is widespread in consumer contracts; following the …
106 W.J. BRYNE, Broom’s Selection of Legal Maxims: Classified and Illustrated, 9th edition. Sweet …
PIMS: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies · 2009 English
Mainstream historiography has traditionally found the roots of peasant action, and much of the meaning of that action, in legal status difference between lords and peasants, and among peasants themselves. …
makes a brief reference to analogies between legal maxims, proverbial sayings, and parish priests teaching …
UBC: UBC Press · 1 June 2006 English
Courts and Federalism examines recent developments in the judicial review of federalism in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Through detailed surveys of these three countries, Gerald Baier clearly demonstrates …
federalism has generally been formal, phrased in legal maxims and categories, not much attuned to the overt …
UBC: UBC Press · 2005 English
This book traces twentieth-century Canadian criminal justice responses to women who kill their newly born babies. Initially, juries were reluctant to convict these women of murder since it carried the …
reasonable doubt” did not become established legal maxims until the late eighteenth century (Beattie 1986) …
