A brocard is a legal maxim in Latin that is, in a strict sense, derived from traditional legal authorities, even from ancient Rome. According to the dictionaries...

Pacta sunt servanda ("agreements must be kept.") is a brocard and a fundamental principle of law which holds that treaties or contracts are binding upon...

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An ex post facto law is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences or status of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed...

Brocard can refer to: Brocard (law) Henri Brocard, a nineteenth-century mathematician, and these geometrical entities he discovered: Brocard points Brocard...

the law". The concept comes from Roman law, and is expressed in the brocard ignorantia legis non excusat. The essential public character of a law requires...

Latin, or anglicized Law Latin. A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V See also References External links Brocard (law) Byzantine law Code of Hammurabi...

retroactive criminalization and prescribing laws to be strictly construed. Despite the use of Latin language and brocard-like appearance, the formula was mostly...

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and adapt their concepts to the canon law, giving birth to the jus commune. Latin legal maxims (called brocards) were compiled for guidance. In medieval...

common law where [one party] had a legal claim and a competing earlier claim to the property was purely equitable." Brocard (law) English trusts law Legal...

original owner. In American law, a bona fide purchaser who unknowingly purchases and subsequently sells stolen goods will, at common law, be held liable in trover...

sua or in parte sua) is a Latin brocard that translates as "no one is judge in their own case". Originating from Roman law, it was crystallized into a phrase...

Maxims of equity Brocard (law) Philosophy of law "The Maxims of the Law" is combined with a tract entitled The Use of the Common Law, for preservation...

supreme law"; "Let the good [or safety] of the people be the supreme [or highest] law"; or "The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law") is a maxim...

all the way to Heaven and all the way to Hell") is a principle of property law, stating that property holders have rights not only to the plot of land itself...

ancient Greek dramatists. A similar principle can also be found in Islamic law, based on a hadith indicating that in litigation, both parties must be heard...

through another does the act himself", is a fundamental legal maxim of the law of agency. It is a maxim often stated in discussing the liability of employer...

there are specific grounds in law for his compensation. The brocard has been described as the basic principle of tort law and is attributed to the Roman...

"imperium-romanum.com – Relikte – Sentenzen". Retrieved 19 September 2014. SNU Law 'Loci Communes Manlii : das ist: Herrliche Schöne Historien Allerley Selten...

 'one witness, no witness') is a Latin legal phrase describing a rule of the law of evidence. According to this rule, the uncorroborated testimony of one...

a willing person, injury is not done") is a Roman legal maxim and common law doctrine which states that if someone willingly places themselves in a position...

literally means "For among arms, the laws are silent" but is more popularly rendered as "In times of war, the law falls silent." The aphorism was likely...

no sovereignty over each other') is a general principle of international law, forming the basis of state immunity. Because of this principle, a sovereign...

principle that "the court knows the law", i.e., that the parties to a legal dispute do not need to plead or prove the law that applies to their case. The...

no damage arises" is a similar construction. Particularly relevant in the law of contract, tort and trusts, ex turpi causa is also known as the illegality...

non potest delegari is a principle in constitutional and administrative law that means in Latin that "no delegated powers can be further delegated"....

does not concern himself with trifles") or de minimis non curat lex ("The law does not concern itself with trifles"). Queen Christina of Sweden (r. 1633–1654)...

(Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in common law and Roman-Dutch law jurisdictions under which a court can infer negligence from the...

Competition Law Annual 2013, p 516. Adler-Nissen and Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds). Sovereignty Games, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, p 77. Dahrendorf, Law And Order...