| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Law Maxim |
| | | A fault finds its own authors. | 1 |
| A good judge decides fairly, preferring equity to strict law. | 2 |
| All men are equal before the natural law. | 3 |
| An equal has no power over an equal. | 4 |
| Ancient custom is always held or regarded as law. | 5 |
| Custom is held to be as a law. | 6 |
| Custom is the best interpreter of laws. | 7 |
| False in one thing, false in everything. | 8 |
| In all things, but particularly in the law, there is equity. | 9 |
| Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. | 10 |
| No man should be judge in his own case. | 11 |
| That which had no force in the beginning can gain no strength from the lapse of time. | 12 |
| The custom of the manor and the place must be observed. | 13 |
| The law succors the ignorant. | 14 |
| The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. | 15 |
| The principal part of everything is the beginning. | 16 |
| What otherwise is good and just, if it be aimed at by fraud or violence, becomes evil and unjust. | 17 |
| When the death of a human being may be the consequence, no delay that is afforded is long. | 18 |
| You are not to do evil that good may come of it. | 19 | | |
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