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LATIN MAXIMS AND KULES
IN
LAW AND EQUITY,
MOST IN USE.
COLLECTION
OP
LATIN MAXIMS & RULES,
IN LAW AND EQUITY,
SELECTED FROM THE MOST EMINENT AUTHORS, ON THE CIVIL, CANON, FEUDAL, ENGLISH AND SCOTS LAW.
WITH
AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION,
AND
AN APPENDIX
OF REFERENCE TO THE AUTHORITIES FROM WHICH THE MAXIMS ARE SELECTED.
BY
PETER HALKERSTON, L. L. D.
AUTHOR OF "THE COMPENDIUM OP THE FACULTY COLLECTION
OF DECISIONS, &C."
PRINCIPLES, CAUSES, AND ELEMENTS, BEING UNKNOWN, THE SCIENCE WHEREOF THEY ARE, IS ALTOGETHER
UNKNOWN.
FORTESCUE b.8.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR JOHN ANDERSON AND CO. ROYAL EXCHANGE;
MACREDIE, SRELLY, AND CO. 34, PRINCES STREET; AND
CHARLES HUNTER, LAW BOOKSELLER, LONDON.
Wnj. Bayne, Printer,
Jaiines's Court, ifedinburgh.
PREFACE.
Maxims are general principles. General principles afford the most beneficial subjects of reflection: hence it is obvious, that the memory cannot be too well stored with Maxims. With regard to Law, Maxims are the pillars upon which the system is erected. When the memory is stored with them, the Lawyer can have no difficulty in his practice, to fill up the outhne.
The collection of Maxims here presented'to the Public, is, I beheve, as extensive as any that has hitherto been p…