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Justice is never absent, only late - Hunet

In the motherly eyes of civil law, everyone is the whole country - Montesquieu

There are only two things in the world that can deeply shock our hearts. One is the brilliant starry sky above our heads, and the other is the lofty moral law in our hearts - Kant

Law is The crystallization of all human wisdom and intelligence, including all social thoughts and morals. ——Ancient Greek Plato

No one has any obligation to accuse himself.

Marriage requires both husband and wife to be faithful, and faithfulness is the most sacred of all rights. ——Falour Rousseau

You cannot be convicted twice for the same thing

There is no law in emergencies (emergency avoidance)

The deterrent effect of punishment does not lie in the nature of the punishment The severity lies in its inevitability. ——Beccaria

There is no right without relief. ——Legal Proverb

To understand the law, especially the flaws of the law. ——British Bentham

Justice is not a part of virtue, but the whole virtue; on the contrary, injustice is not a part of evil, but the whole evil. ——Aristotle of Ancient Greece

The purpose of legal research is a prediction, that is, a prediction of the impact of the instrumental activities of public power through the courts. ——American (official) Holmes "Common Law"

The law does not protect those who sleep in rights--Legal Proverb

The contract is the law between the parties

< p>No one may benefit from his illegal conduct

The court shall not act on matters that have not been appealed to him

The parties give the judge facts, and the judge gives the parties the law

Where evidence is produced, the case is lost. ——Ancient Roman legal proverb

One unfair referee is more harmful than many unfair actions. Because these unfair actions only dirty the water, while unfair referees ruin the source of the water. ——English Bacon's "On Justice"

Justice should not only be realized, but also be realized in a way that people can see.

The law does not force people to make things difficult

Everything not prohibited by the law is the rights of citizens

Ignorance of the facts can be used as an excuse, but ignorance of the law cannot excuse (guilty responsibility).

No one is punished for his thoughts (Nemocogitationis poenam patitur; Cogitationis poenamnemo patitur). ——Roman law proverb

Non reu nisi mens sitrea (Non reu nisi mens sitrea)——British law proverb (that is, criminal punishment cannot be imposed for acts without mens rea (such as accidents, insanity, Youth, ignorance, etc. cannot be blamed on the perpetrator)

Punishment cannot be abolished in the prosperous age, and it is not upheld in the prosperous age. - "Sikuquanshu·Politics and Laws·Legal Notes on Laws and Regulations"< /p>

Procedure is the dividing line between the rule of law and the rule of arbitrariness. - Western legal proverb: Procedure precedes rights.

Judges must not refuse to make decisions because there is no law.

In order to prevent punishment from becoming an atrocity that someone or some people inflict on other citizens, in essence, the punishment should be open, timely, necessary, as light as possible under the given conditions, and proportional to the crime. ——Beccaria

The judge is the king of the legal world, and there is no other superior than the law. ——Karl Marx

Private property. The real basis is possession, which is an inexplicable fact, not a right. Actual possession has the character of legal possession only because society gives it legal provisions. >Everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty

No one is obliged to accuse himself

In dubio prereo

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The police are the servants of the court - British and American French proverb (mainly means that the police must appear in court to testify when summoned by the court)

The burden of proof is the backbone of litigation

The simple and absolute sense of justice is often the biggest killer of the law of evidence.

Law is the revealed morality, and morality is the hidden law.

——Lincoln

A kind heart is the best law. ——McClay

Inflexible fairness is actually the greatest unfairness. ——Thomas Fowler

An unfair contract is better than a lengthy lawsuit. ——German proverb

Justice is never absent, it is only late - Hunet

Delayed justice is justice denied (Justice delayer is justice denied).

——Western legal proverb

The judge is the speaking law, and the law is the silent judge. [U.S.] Edward S. Corwin

The fate of all laws that go against man's natural feelings is like a dam directly crossing a river: it will either be immediately washed away and submerged, or it will be swept away by the whirlpool of its own making. eroded and gradually destroyed. [Italian] Beccaria

Good law should provide more than just procedural justice. It should be both strong and fair; it should help define the public interest and work toward substantive justice. [U.S.] Nonette Selznick

In my opinion, the crime of accidentally killing someone is relatively small, but the crime of confusing beauty and ugliness, good and evil, justice and injustice, and deceiving the world is a serious crime. . [Ancient Greece] Plato's "Utopia"

Laws are formulated to punish human beings for their evil transgressions, so the law itself must be the purest and most innocent. [Law] Montesquieu

People are different. People cannot understand that everyone is equal before the law to mean that equality means treating everyone equally and everyone is equal. [Austria] Ludwig von Mises

No one may profit for himself by harming others

Exercise his own rights only if he does not harm the rights of others< /p>

No one shall be presumed to have abandoned his or her property.

Contract trumps law. The agreement of the parties overrides the law.

Those who avoid harm have priority over those who gain benefits.

When the debt certificate is in the hands of the debtor, the debt is presumed to have been paid. An evidence of debt found in possession of the debor is presumed to be paid.

Jurisprudence is the spirit of the law. The reason of the law is the soul of the law.

The peace of the people is the highest law. The safety of the people is the supreme law.

Law is the knowledge about the human world and the divine world, the science about justice and injustice. ---"Legal Ladder"