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.

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.

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 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.

An exception to this maxim can be seen in cases where the doctrine of estoppel applies.

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.

Simply put, this criterion amounts to a thought experiment: to attempt to universalize the maxim ( imagine a world where all people necessarily acted in this way in the relevant circumstances ) and then see if the maxim and its associated action would still be conceivable in such a world.

Universalizing a maxim ( statement ) leads to it being valid, or to one of two contradictions — a contradiction in conception ( where the maxim, when universalized, is no longer a viable means to the end ) or a contradiction in will ( where the will of a person contradicts what the universalization of the maxim implies ).

In Der Zauberlehrling and in the story's iteration in the 1940 animated film Fantasia, it is generally presumed that the story embodies some maxim or moral, and that it is something along the lines of " don't meddle with things you don't understand " or offers a metaphor for modern society where youth and inexperience is enthroned, resulting in an increasingly out of control mess being made, and in need of ' our betters ' to return and take charge once more.

* Oxonica Energy Ltd v Neuftec Ltd ( 2008 ) EWHC 2127 ( Pat ), items 88-93 ( example where the contra proferentem principle was " not adequate enough to supply the answer to the case ", with a discussion of the origin of the maxim )

In English and American jurisprudence, there is a legal maxim ( albeit one sometimes honored in the breach ) that for every right, there is a remedy ; where there is no remedy, there is no right.

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.

It further noted that the maxim is often wisely applied where a word is capable of many meanings.

Dr. Rolf reduced her practice to a maxim: " Put the tissue where it should be and then ask for movement.

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.

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 "

This maxim, as interpreted by Bertrand Russell, states that if one can explain a phenomenon without assuming this or that hypothetical entity, there is no ground for assuming it, i. e. that one should always opt for an explanation in terms of the fewest possible causes, factors, or variables.

From a skeptical point of view, there is a Latin maxim: prophecy written after the fact vaticinium ex eventu.

In the book, he maintains his maxim " that there is nothing in the intellect which has not been in the senses " ( nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu ), but he contends that the imaginative faculty ( phantasia ) is the counterpart of sense, because it involves material images, and therefore is intrinsically material, and that it is essentially the same both in men and brutes.

His application of the Latin maxim " Ubi panis ibi patria " ( Where there is bread, there is my country ) to early American settlers also shows an interesting insight.

In 1962, the comic book superhero Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee, adopted the maxim, " With great power there must also come great responsibility " after his refusal to stop a thief led to the death of his Uncle Ben.

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De gustibus non est disputandum is a Latin maxim meaning " In matters of taste, there can be no disputes " ( literally, " There must not be debate concerning tastes ").

It is the usual British maxim that the actions of a King in possession are valid, even when his title is unsound ; but there was also a law of the Kingdom of Ireland that the King of England is automatically King of Ireland-and William and Mary were crowned in England on 11 April 1689.

: 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 ).

From this idea comes the scholastic maxim " there is nothing in the understanding which was not prior in the senses ".

: With respect to this maxim, Grice writes, " Though the maxim itself is terse, its formulation conceals a number of problems that exercise me a good deal: questions about what different kinds and focuses of relevance there may be, how these shift in the course of a talk exchange, how to allow for the fact that subjects of conversations are legitimately changed, and so on.

Seeing and understanding movement was fundamental to his art and teaching, and is reflected in his own maxim: “ Paint in verbs, not nouns .” In the words of his son David, Woodbury "... painted what he saw, satisfied that what he saw was really there, all in proper relationship, checked and rechecked by endless reference to the real world ".

If there is one constant in town-gown relations over the centuries, it can be summed up with the maxim, " Students will be students.

Louis A. Landa presents Swift ’ s A Modest Proposal as a critique of the popular and unjustified maxim of mercantilism in the 18th century that " people are the riches of a nation ".

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.

These are customarily placed under the rubric of Ockham's razor, named after the 14th century Franciscan friar William of Ockham, who is credited with many different expressions of the maxim, not all of which have yet been found among his extant works.

" 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.

' Moreover, we who know the maxim, ' Blessed are the peacemakers ,' and this also, ' Blessed are the meek ,' would not regard with hatred the corrupters of Christianity, nor term those who had fallen into error Circes and flattering deceivers.

Thus while defenders argue that the three-prong test embodies the maxim that " opportunity drives interest ", critics argue that the three-prong test goes beyond Title IX original purpose of preventing discrimination, and instead amounts to an exercise in which athletic opportunities are taken away from male students and given to female students, despite the comparatively lower interest levels of those female students.

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.

The consequences of this maxim, and of equitable conversion, are significant in their bearing on the risk of loss in transactions.

Each maxim consists of a single verse, and the verses are arranged in alphabetical order according to their initial letters.

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.

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.

If they are acting on a bad maxim, e. g. " I will lie ", then their action is wrong, even if some good consequences come of it.

The Maxim ( philosophy ) | maxim of the " Golden Rule " is exemplified in many Christian stories, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, which are unadorned replications of the Jew ish Torah: " Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Sarpi's maxim was that " God does not regard externals so long as the mind and heart are right before Him.

An essay on ' The School of Giorgione ' ( Fortnightly Review, 1877 ), added to the third edition ( 1888 ), contains Pater's much-quoted maxim " All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music " ( i. e. the arts seek to unify subject matter and form, and music is the only art in which subject and form are seemingly one ).

All utilitarian theories are based upon the maxim of utility, which states that good is whatever provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Non-maleficence, which is derived from the maxim, is one of the principal precepts of medical ethics that all medical students are taught in medical school and is a fundamental principle for emergency medical services around the world.

Their maxim is " we all are brothers, we all are the same " ("" dialect ).