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Legal Maxim, a power capsule to help you prepare for CLAT, AILET, SET & other Law exams

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February 11, 2016

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A Legal Maxim is an established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being a correct statement of the law, or as agreeable to natural reason. Most of the Latin Maxim, developed in the medieval era because Latin was the language of law and courts in the European Countries.

Ab Initio– From the beginning
Actusreus- A guilty deed or act
Actusneminifacitinjuriam- The act of the law does no one wrong
Actus non facitreum nisi mens sit rea– The act does not make any one guilty, unless it is coupled with a guilty mind
Audi alterampartem– Hear the other side
Bona fide– In good faith
Caveat emptor– Let the buyer beware
Consensus ad idem– Meeting of minds/ Agreement as to the same things
Damnum sine injuria– Damage without legal injury
De facto– In fact
De Jure– / According to law
De minimislex non-curat– The law does not notice trifling act/matter
Ex nudopacto action non oritur– No action arise on a contract without a consideration
Ex parte- Proceeding brought by one in absence of another
Injuria non excusatinjuriam– A wrong does not excuse a wrong
Ipso facto– By that very Fact
Injuria sine damnu- Legal damage without any actual loss
Judex non potestesse testis in propiracausa– A judge cannot be witness in his own cause
Mensrea– Guilty state of Mind
Nemodebetessejudex in propriacausa- No one can be judge in his own cause
Prima facie– On the face of it
Res ipsaloquiter- The thing speaks for itself
Stare decisis- To stand be precedents
Ubi jus ibiremedium- Where there is a right there is a remedy
Volenti non fit inuria- Voluntary assumption of risk