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 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 ").

The maxim fiat justitia, ruat caelum (" Let justice be done, though the heavens fall "), used by Lord Mansfield in Somersett's Case and in reversing the outlawry of John Wilkes, and in the alternate form fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus by Ferdinand of Habsburg, is sometimes attributed to Piso, but this is disputed.

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.

Indeed, it was said of Abbahu that he was a living illustration of the maxim ( Ecc.

1991 ) that the Ninth Amendment was intended to vitiate the maxim of expressio unius est exclusio alterius according to which the express mention of one thing excludes all others:

In 1972, the UNCF adopted, as its motto, the maxim, " A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

This clergyman should have referred to Shakespeare's dictum: `` So-so is a good, very good, very excellent maxim.

This rule does not usually apply to intentional torts ( for example, deceit ), and also has stunted applicability to the quantum in negligence where the maxim Intended consequences are never too remote applies ' never ' is inaccurate here but resorts to unforeseeable direct and natural consequences of an act.

The essence of subsidiarity is concisely inherent in the Chinese maxim ' Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day ; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime '.

* John D. Caputo attempts to explain deconstruction in a nutshell by stating that: " Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or a pithy maxim — the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility.

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 Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is a maxim, ethical code, or morality

This view is frequently summarised by the maxim an unjust law is not a true law, lex iniusta non est lex, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

Natural law is sometimes identified with the maxim that " an unjust law is no law at all ", but as John Finnis, the most important of modern natural lawyers has argued, this maxim is a poor guide to the classical Thomist position.

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.

Substances in the molten state generally have reduced viscosity with elevated temperature ; an exception to this maxim is the element sulfur, whose viscosity increases with higher temperatures in its molten state.

" No crime, no punishment without a previous penal law ") is a basic maxim in continental European legal thinking.

Jains compare all attempts to proclaim absolute truth with andhgajnyaya or the " maxim of the blind men and elephant ", wherein all the blind men claimed to explain the true appearance of the elephant, but could only partly succeed due to their narrow perspective.

When he writes, “ No truth value attaches to above, regarded as of merely structural and dramatic convenience ”, Beckett takes the emphasis away from Berkeley's maxim thus stressing the dramatic structure of the work.

Rather, Peirce's pragmatic maxim is the heart of his pragmatism as a method of experimentational mental reflection arriving at conceptions in terms of conceivable confirmatory and disconfirmatory circumstances — a method hospitable to the generation of explanatory hypotheses, and conducive to the employment and improvement of verification to test the truth of putative knowledge.

The simple truth, Noam Chomsky, is that you were unable to abide by the ethical maxim you had imposed.

The most characteristic features are ( 1 ) a reliance on the pragmatic maxim as a means of clarifying the meanings of difficult concepts, truth in particular, and ( 2 ) an emphasis on the fact that the product variously branded as belief, certainty, knowledge, or truth is the result of a process, namely, inquiry.

The Wealth of Nations was first mentioned in Parliament by the Whig leader Charles James Fox on 11 November 1783: " There was a maxim laid down in an excellent book upon the Wealth of Nations which had been ridiculed for its simplicity, but which was indisputable as to its truth.

" The Supreme Court explicitly referred to this maxim within its ruling on the case Ex parte Milligan, when it remarked that " these of the Bill of Rights, in truth, are all peace provisions of the Constitution and, like all other conventional and legislative laws and enactments, are silent amidst arms, and when the safety of the people becomes the supreme law.

It encompassed the courage to dissent expressed in the maxim " The greatest jihad is to utter a word of truth in the presence of a tyrannical ruler " ( a hadith reported by Abu Sa ' id al-Khudri ) as well as any productive activity that Muslims undertook, on their own initiative, to improve the well-being of the Islamic community.

Jeremy Bentham used the term, but it was probably James Mill's reference to the " laissez-faire " maxim ( together with " pas trop gouverner ") in an 1824 entry for the Encyclopædia Britannica that really brought the term into wider English usage.

A dicto simpliciter ( sweeping generalization ) ( Latin: " from a maxim without qualification ", meaning " from a universal rule ") or ad dictum simpliciter ( Latin: " to a maxim without qualification ", meaning " to a universal rule ") are Latin phrases for a type of informal fallacy of presumption.

Its line " Keep pure your highest ideal, strive ever towards it ; let naught stop you or turn you aside, for mine is the secret door which opens upon the door of youth " is used as a maxim for ethical dilemmas.

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.

This maxim is often displaced by statutory limitations, but even where a limitation period has not yet run, equity may apply the doctrine of " laches ," an equitable term used to describe delay sufficient to defeat an equitable claim.

" Few sieges and many combats " he used as his own maxim.

The principle behind the choice of word roots of Dutton Speedwords is the maxim that frequently used words should be shorter than seldom-used words in order to speed up communication ( see information theory ).

The Standard adopted a distinctive orange and black masthead, and an advertising campaign that used a carrot logo and the maxim " clearer vision ".

The phrase " demise of the crown " is used in English law to signify the immediate transfer of the sovereignty, with all its attributes and prerogatives, to the successor without any interregnum in accordance with the maxim " the Crown never dies ".

The full force application of the equitable maxim estoppel only allows a litigant to “ use it as a shield and not as a sword ” restricts the application of this doctrine to as far as only to provide a defence to a party and not to be used as a cause of action against another.