Actio non datur non damnificato – An action is not given to one who is not injured.
Actio non accrevit infra sex annos – The action has not accrued within six years.
Actio personalis moritur cum persona – A personal action dies with the person.
Actori incumbit onus probandi – The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.
Actus nemini facit injuriam – The act of the law does no one wrong.
Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea – The act does not make one guilty unless there be a criminal intent.
Ad quaestionem facti non respondent judices; ad quaestionem legis non respondent juratores – The judges do not answer to a question of fact; the jury do not answer to a question of Law.
Aedificare in tuo proprio solo non licet quod alteri noceat – It is not lawful to build on one’s own land what may be injurious to another.
Aequitas legem sequitur – Equity follows the law.
Alibi – At another place, elsewhere.
Allegans contraria non est audiendus – One making contradictory statements is not to be heard.
Allegans contraria non est audiendus – One making contradictory statements is not to be heard.
Ambiguitas verborum patens nulla verificatione excluditur – A patent ambiguity is never helped by averment.
Ambiguitas verborum patens nulla verificatione excluditur – A patent ambiguity is never helped by averment.
Argumentum ab auctoritate fortissimum est in lege – An argument drawn from authority is the strongest in law.
Arma in armatos sumere jura sinunt – The laws permit the taking up of arms against the armed.
Assentio mentium – The meeting of minds, i.e. mutual assent.
Audi alteram partem – Hear the other side.
Bona fide – Sincere, in good faith
Causa proxima, non remota spectatur – The immediate, and not the remote cause is to be considered.
Consensus ad idem – Agreement as to the same things.
Corpus delicti – The body, i.e. the gist of crime
Crimen omnia ex se nata vitiat – Crime vitiates every thing, which springs from it.
Crimen trahit personam – The crime carries the person.
Cursus curiae est lex curiae – The practice of the court is the law of the court.
Damnum sine injuria – damage without legal injury.
Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat – The burden of the proof lies upon him who affirms, not he who denies.
Ex dolo malo actio non oritur – A right of action cannot arise out of fraud.
Ex praecedentibus et consequentibus optima fit interpretatio – The best interpretation is made from things preceding and following.
Falsa demonstratio non nocet – A false description does not vitiate.
Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit – He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
Fraus est celare fraudem – It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.
Frustra probatur quod probatum non relevat – That is proved in vain which when proved is not relevant.
Habemus optimum testem confitentem reum – We have the best witness, a confessing defendant.
Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat – Ignorance of fact excuses, ignorance of law does not excuse.
Impotentia excusat legem – Impossibility is an excuse in the law.
In alta proditione nullus potest esse acessorius; sed principalis solum modo – In high treason no one can be an accessory; but a principal only.
In criminalibus probationes debent esse luce clariores – In criminal cases the proofs ought to be cleared than the light.
Intentio inservire debet legibus, non leges intentioni – Intention ought to be subservient to the laws, not the laws to the intention.
Judicis est judicare secundum allegata et probata– It is the duty of a judge to decide according to the allegations and the proofs.
Jus dicere, non jus dare – To declare the law, not to make the law.
Justitia est duplec; severe puniens et vere praeveniens– Justice is two-fold; severely punishing and in reality prohibiting (offences).
Lex non deficere potest in justitia exhibenda – The law cannot fail in dispensing justice.
Sublato fundamento cadit opus – Foundation being removed structure falls .
Suppressio veri expressio falsi– A suppression of truth is equivalent to an expression of falsehood.
Ut poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes, perveniat – That punishment may come to a few, the fear of it should affect all.
Voluntas in delictis non exitus spectatur – In offences the intent and not the result is looked at.
