Given below are the few common legal maxims for CLAT. Questions related to legal maxims are often asked in the law entrance exams as a part of Legal GK.
This is an area where it is not very difficult to lose marks provided you have read the maxims thoroughly. Usually, the maxims that are asked in these exams are not very uncommon or difficult ones. Although this is not an exhaustive list for maxims, these are the maxims you are advised to know well. All the best!
- Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea
- The act does not make a man guilty unless he has a guilty mind.
- Qui facit per alium facit per se
- A person who makes another person acting for him is deemed to be acting himself.
- Ubi jus lbi remedium
- Where there is a right, there is a remedy
- Ignorantia juris non excusat
- Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
- Volenti non fit injuria
- One who has consented for the act suffers no injury.
- Actus reus
- Mens rea
- Corpus delicti
- De minimis non curat lex
- The law does not concern itself with trivial things
- Vis major
- Stare decisis
- To stand by the things decided
- Res ipsa loquitor
- Nudum pactum
- consensus ad idem
- Agreeing upon the same thing in the same sense
- Bona fide
- Mandamus
- Habeas corpus
- Lox loci
- Lex fori
- The law of the foreign land
- Intra vivos
- In pari materia
- Ex injuria jus non oritur
- Law does not arise from injustice
- Ejusdem generis
- Doli incapax
- audi alteram partem