California Civil Code PART 4 - MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE

• Section 3509.
  The maxims of jurisprudence hereinafter set forth are intended not to qualify any of the foregoing provisions of this code, but to aid in their...
• Section 3510.
  When the reason of a rule ceases, so should the rule itself.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3511.
  Where the reason is the same, the rule should be the same.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3512.
  One must not change his purpose to the injury of another.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3513.
  Any one may waive the advantage of a law intended solely for his benefit. But a law established for a public reason cannot be contravened...
• Section 3514.
  One must so use his own rights as not to infringe upon the rights of another.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3515.
  He who consents to an act is not wronged by it.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3516.
  Acquiescence in error takes away the right of objecting to it.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3517.
  No one can take advantage of his own wrong.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3518.
  He who has fraudulently dispossessed himself of a thing may be treated as if he still had possession.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3519.
  He who can and does not forbid that which is done on his behalf, is deemed to have bidden it.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3520.
  No one should suffer by the act of another.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3521.
  He who takes the benefit must bear the burden.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3522.
  One who grants a thing is presumed to grant also whatever is essential to its use.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3523.
  For every wrong there is a remedy.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3524.
  Between those who are equally in the right, or equally in the wrong, the law does not interpose.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3525.
  Between rights otherwise equal, the earliest is preferred.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3526.
  No man is responsible for that which no man can control.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3527.
  The law helps the vigilant, before those who sleep on their rights.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3528.
  The law respects form less than substance.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3529.
  That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done, in favor of him to whom, and against him from whom, performance...
• Section 3530.
  That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3531.
  The law never requires impossibilities.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3532.
  The law neither does nor requires idle acts.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3533.
  The law disregards trifles.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3534.
  Particular expressions qualify those which are general.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3535.
  Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3536.
  The greater contains the less.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3537.
  Superfluity does not vitiate.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3538.
  That is certain which can be made certain.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3539.
  Time does not confirm a void act.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3540.
  The incident follows the principal, and not the principal the incident.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3541.
  An interpretation which gives effect is preferred to one which makes void.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3542.
  Interpretation must be reasonable.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3543.
  Where one of two innocent persons must suffer by the act of a third, he, by whose negligence it happened, must be the sufferer.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3545.
  Private transactions are fair and regular.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 3546.
  Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 3547.
  A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 3548.
  The law has been obeyed.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018