actus dei nemini facit injuriam
Meaning The law holds no man responsible for the Act of God
Legal Maxims
A Legal Maxim is an established principle or proposition. They are described as of the same strength and effect in the law as statutes.
Not only, will the use of maxims be in deciding doubt and helping soundness of judgment, but, further, in gracing argument, in correcting unprofitable subtlety, and reducing the same to a more sound and substantial sense of law, in reclaiming vulgar errors, and, generally, in the amendment in some measure of the very nature and complexion of the whole law.
in jure non remota causa sed proxima spectatur
Meaning The immediate cause is given regard in law, not the remote cause.
ubi jus ibi remedium
Meaning There is no wrong without a remedy
quod ab initio non valet in tractu temporis non convalescit
Meaning That which was originally void does not become valid by lapse of time.
de minimis non curat lex
Meaning The law does not concern itself about trifles