18 Quotes by Legal Maxim

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility

A public right cannot be changed by private agreement

A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature

That is sufficiently certain which can be made certain

No man can make another a debtor against his will

No man can give what he has not

In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.

The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur