It concerns the commonwealth-soruns the legal maxim-thatthere be an end of litigation.

The legal maxim has it, 'The law does not care about the very smallest matters.'

And moreover a legal maxim-caveatemptor, "Let the buyer beware"-madecheating legally safe.

Even among themselves the Teutons knew nothing of the modern legal maxim that all should stand equal before the law.

There is abundant evidence to prove that an aboriginal legal maxim was, "The stranger is an enemy, kill him."

The last typical case that we shall give illustrates the singular application by this more than singular judge of the legal maxim caveat emptor.

What that precisely means, as a legal maxim, I do not profess to know, but it is rank heresy in regard to conduct and morality.

A lawyer, quoting a legal maxim one day in court, turned to Lincoln, and said: "That is so, is it not, Mr. Lincoln?"

I admit that it is an established legal maxim that every person (judicial officers excepted) is bound, and must be presumed, to know the law.

These principles are legal maxims or axioms essential to the existence of regulated society.

But first your leave, young Mistress Lorna; I cannot lay down legal maxims, without aid of smoke.

In neither of these characters was he likely to have much respect for legal maxims, or rules of merely human contrivance.

There are legal maxims and customs of ancient origin which have become well established and known though not written down as statutes.

There are legal maxims which are becoming so well established and known that there will never be a need to write them down as statutes.