A particular guiding rule in some legal system.
1This is the principle of law as well as of common sense.
2It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.
3Their enactments were, by every principle of law and right, null and void.
4The same principle of law has been applied to a house destroyed by lightning.
5But the principle of law is plain enough; the only difficulty is in its application.
6How long since utility became a principle of law?
7It is a cardinal principle of law that a person is deemed innocent until proved guilty.
8According to every principle of law, creditors have a lien on the property of their debtors.
9The fundamental principle of law is that of a restriction imposed by the necessity of social existence.
10For Spinoza God is simply the principle of law, the sum of all the eternal laws in existence.
11This one controlling force, this principle of law, is at the bottom of everything in nature and art.
12But every legal fiction is outward homage to the principle of law, an outward protest against unlawful violence.
13This is the principle of law and order - sacrifices of our freewill in return for the advantages of a safe living environment.
14He was also much disturbed if any lawyer opposed to him misstated a principle of law, who ought, in his judgment, to know better.
15All precedents are under the control of the principles of law.
16The great basal principles of law are found in concrete form.
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