Over time, these canons were supplemented with decretals of the Bishops of Rome, which were responses to doubts or problems according to the maxim, " Roma locuta est, causa finita est " (" Rome has spoken, case is closed ").

The maxim in vivo veritas (" in a living thing is truth ") used to describe this type of testing is a play on words from in vino veritas, in wine is truth.

The name is derived from a maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of the original Peruvian Communist Party in the 1920s: " El Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la revolución " (" Marxism – Leninism will open the shining path to revolution ").

It was believed, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat ; Francesco Redi carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim Omne vivum ex ovo (" every living thing comes from a living thing " — literally " from an egg "), Virchow ( and his predecessors ) extended this to state that the only source for a living cell was another living cell.

The Latin legal maxim is ubi jus ibi remedium (" where there is a right, there must be a remedy "), sometimes cited as ubi jus ibi remediam.

This was not the only occasion on which Akiba was made to feel the truth of his favorite maxim (" Whatever God doeth He doeth for the best ").

Over time, these canons were supplemented with decretals of the Bishops of Rome, which were responses to doubts or problems according to the maxim, Roma locuta est, causa finita est (" Rome has spoken, case is closed ").

Disapproval of what he viewed as specifically Romanian traits had been present in his works (" In any maxim, in any proverb, in any reflection, our people expresses the same shyness in front of life, the same hesitation and resignation ... [...] Everyday Romanian are dumbfounding.

The maxim of cuius regio, eius religio (" whose region, his religion ") meant that subjects had to adopt the faith of their rulers.

Nulle terre sans seigneur (" There is no land without its lord ") was a feudal legal maxim ; where no other lord can be discovered the Crown is lord as lord paramount.

Gournay was delighted by the Colbert-LeGendre anecdote, and forged it into a larger maxim all his own: " Laissez faire et laissez passer " (' Let do and let pass ').

" Let justice pierce the mountain " is the characteristic maxim attributed to Moses ( Sanh.

Let me give you a maxim that is a thousand times better than that, and it is the protection maxim: ‘ Buy where you can pay the easiest.

: In Act 1, in an effort at light metaphor, the character Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, misquotes the Latin phrase Nil nisi bonum and conflates it with the maxim De gustibus non est disputandum ( About taste there is no disputing ), which results in the mixed mortuary opinion: De gustibus aut bene, aut nihil ( Let nothing be said of taste, but what is good ).

This maxim, however dangerous in a trustee of the public wealth, was balanced by a principle of humanity and justice, which taught him to abhor, as of the basest alloy, the gold that was extracted from the tears of the people.

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

The principle can be traced to a maxim which furnished a text of the Pandects of Justinian: in their Latin version, " Rex solutus est a legibus ", or " The king is released from the laws.

The conception that in religious matters anyone, however ignorant, can judge for himself, is the direct denial of the old Jewish maxim, ‘ The ignorant cannot be pious ’ ( Avot 2: 5 )… The majority vote of a Board of Directors of a synagogue is, after all, a negligible quantity when it is in opposition to the vote of historical Judaism with its myriad of Saints and thousands of Sages … The sorting, distributing, selecting, harmonizing and completing can only be done by experienced hands.

The maxim states that there can be no crime committed, and no punishment meted out, without a violation of penal law as it existed at the time.

However, some legal scholars criticize this, because generally, in the legal systems of Continental Europe where the maxim was first developed, " penal law " was taken to mean statutory penal law, so as to create a guarantee to the individual, considered as a fundamental right, that he would not be prosecuted for an action or omission that was not considered a crime according to the statutes passed by the legislators in force at the time of the action or omission, and that only those penalties that were in place when the infringement took place would be applied.

A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim.

Von Feuerbach was the originator of the famous maxim nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali: " There's no crime and hence there shall not be punishment if at the time no penal law existed "

" The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

More, relying on legal precedent and the maxim " qui tacet consentire videtur " ( literally, who ( is ) silent is seen to consent ), understood that he could not be convicted as long as he did not explicitly deny that the King was Supreme Head of the Church, and he therefore refused to answer all questions regarding his opinions on the subject.

Hempel rejected this as a solution to the paradox, insisting that the proposition ' c is a raven and is black ' must be considered " by itself and without reference to any other information ", and pointing out that it "... was emphasized in section 5. 2 ( b ) of my article in Mind ... that the very appearance of paradoxicality in cases like that of the white shoe results in part from a failure to observe this maxim.

Socrates thinks that this idea must be identical in meaning, if not in actual words, to Protagoras ' famous maxim " Man is the measure of all things.

" Putting words in the dead sophist's mouth, Socrates declares that Protagoras asserts with his maxim that all things are in motion and whatever seems to be the case, is the case for the perceiver, whether the individual or the state.

It was Peirce's own maxim that " Facts cannot be explained by a hypothesis more extraordinary than these facts themselves ; and of various hypotheses the least extraordinary must be adopted.

The burden of proof is often associated with the Latin maxim semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the best translation of which seems to be: " the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges.

Some commentators, such as Rabbi Hayim Palaggi ( 1788 – 1869 ) argued that Jews had lost the tradition of distinguishing Amalekites from other people, and therefore the commandment of killing them could not practically be applied ("... We can rely on the maxim that in ancient times, Sennacherib confused the lineage of many nations.

The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim.

The influence of Flores Magón on Zapata can be seen in the Zapatistas ' Plan de Ayala, but even more noticeably in their slogan ( this slogan was never used by Zapata ) " Tierra y libertad " or " land and liberty ", the title and maxim of Flores Magón's most famous work.

The translator Arthur Waley noted that, " A certain idealization of the ' noble savage ' is to be found fairly often in early Chinese literature ", citing the Zuozhuan maxim, " When the Emperor no longer functions, learning must be sought among the ' Four Barbarians ,' north, west, east, and south.

The maxim is necessarily subordinate to positive principles and cannot be applied either to subvert established rules of law or to give the courts a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, and it is only in a general not in a literal sense that maxim has force.

This maxim means that when individuals are required, by their agreements or by law, to perform some act of legal significance, Equity will regard that act as having been done as it ought to have been done, even before it has actually happened.

Judge Earl, in an analogy to a similar case, wrote: " The principle which lies at the bottom of the maxim, volenti non fit injuria a willing person, no injury be done ', should be applied to such a case, and a widow should not, for the purpose of acquiring, as such, property rights, be permitted to allege a widowhood which she has wickedly and intentionally created.

William of Ockham ( c. 1285 – 1349 ) is remembered as an influential nominalist though his popular fame as a great logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him and known as Ockham's razor.

But even though it is possible that a universal law of nature could subsist in accordance with that maxim, still it is impossible to will that such a principle should hold everywhere as a law of nature.

The maxim is widely quoted in defence of theological and religious freedom, even though it raises the essential question of which things are necessary and which are doubtful or unnecessary.

" According to Simon Mann, Steyn " gives succour to the maxim the pen is mightier than the sword, though he is not averse to employing the former to advocate use of the latter.

Forrest's maxim was to: “ Git thar furstest with the mostest .” The controversy lies in the personal history of General Forrest ; after his military duty was over, he became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ( though soon after called for the Klan to disband ).