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    This document lists 18 famous Latin legal maxims and provides a brief explanation for each. Some of the maxims covered include: outward acts indicate inward intent; a prescription does not run against one unable to act; where there is a right, there is a remedy; private contracts cannot override public law; an absolute judgment needs no further explanation; and no one should be a judge in their own case. The maxims provide concise principles related to legal interpretation, procedure, and jurisprudence.

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    This document lists 18 famous Latin legal maxims and provides a brief explanation for each. Some of the maxims covered include: outward acts indicate inward intent; a prescription does not run against one unable to act; where there is a right, there is a remedy; private contracts cannot override public law; an absolute judgment needs no further explanation; and no one should be a judge in their own case. The maxims provide concise principles related to legal interpretation, procedure, and jurisprudence.

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    Famous Legal Maxims and Their Short Explanations

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    This document lists 18 famous Latin legal maxims and provides a brief explanation for each. Some of the maxims covered include: outward acts indicate inward intent; a prescription does not run against one unable to act; where there is a right, there is a remedy; private contracts cannot override public law; an absolute judgment needs no further explanation; and no one should be a judge in their own case. The maxims provide concise principles related to legal interpretation, procedure, and jurisprudence.

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    Famous legal maxims and their short

    explanations
    1. Acta exteriora iudicant interiora secreta
    Outward acts indicate the inward intent.
    2. Actio non accrevit infra sex annos
    The action has not accrued within six years
    3. Actio non datur non damnificato
    An action is not given to one who is not injured.
    4.Quod per me non possum, nec per alium
    What I cannot do through myself, I cannot do through another.
    5.NEMO POTEST FACERE PER ALIUM QUOD PER SE NON POTEST
    No one can do through another what he cannot do himself.
    6. Ubi jus ibi remedium
    Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium is a Latin legal maxim which means "where there is a right there is a
    remedy".
    7. Pacta privata juri publico non derogare possunt
    Private contracts cannot derogate from public law.
    8. DUO NON POSSUNT IN SOLIDO UNAM REM POSSIDERE
    Two cannot possess one thing each in entirety.
    9. Contra non valentem agere nulla currit praes c r i p tio
    Doctrine of Contra Non Valentem comes from the Latin expression ‘contra non valentem
    agere nulla currit praes c r i p tio,' which means “a pres c r i p tion does not run against one
    who is unable to act.”
    10. MELIOREM CONDITIONEM SUAM FACERE POTEST MINOR DETERIOREM
    NEQUAQUAM
    A minor can make his position better, never worse.
    11. Actus Non Facit Reum Nisi Mens Sit Rea
    Actus Non Facit Reum Nisi Mens Sit Rea is a Latin maxim which means that an act to be
    illegal, the person should do it with a guilty mind.
    12.A Mensa Et Toro
    The literal meaning of the term is "from bed and board." A divorce a mensa et toro, is rather
    a separation of the parties by act of law, than a dissolution of the marriage.
    13. Absoluta Sententia Expositore Non Indiget
    Absoluta sententia expositore non indiget is a Latin term. It means ‘an absolute judgment
    needs no expositor.’ A sentence that is plain and absolute does not need an expositor.
    14. NON REFERT QUID NOTUM SIT JUDICI SI NOTUM NON SIT IN FORMA JUDICII
    It matters not what is known to the judge if it is not known judicially.
    15. NON DEFINITUR IN JURE QUID SIT CONATUS
    What an attempt is, is not defined in law.
    16. Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa
    No-one should be a judge in his own cause
    17. Audi alteram partem
    Listen to the other side", or "let the other side be heard as well". It is the principle that no
    person should be judged without a fair hearing in which each party is given the opportunity
    to respond to the evidence against them.
    18. De minimis lex non curat
    A common law principle whereby judges will not sit in judgment of extremely minor
    transgressions of the law.

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