Legal Maxim

Verba legis non est recedendum

Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt
Verba legis
Verba intentioni, non e contra, debent inservire
Verba accipienda sunt secundum subjectam
materiam
Ut res magis valeat quam pereat
Utile per inutile non vitiatur
Ubi lex non distinguit, nec nos distinguire debemus
Ubi jus, ibi remedium
Stare decisis et non quieta movere
Surplusagium non nocet
Salus populi est suprema lex
Reddendo singula singulis
Ratio legis est anima legis
Ratio legis
Ratihabito mandato aquiparatur
Quando aliquid prohibetur ex directo, prohibetur et
per obliquum
Potior est in tempor, potior est in jure
Privilegia reciprint largan interpretationem
voluntate consonan concedentis
Pari materia
Optimum interpres rerum usus
Optima statuti interpretarix est ipsum statum
Nullum tempus occuri regi
Nullum crimen sine poena nulla poena sine lege
Nullus commodum potest de injuria propriasua
Nova constitutio futuris formam imponere debet
non praeteritis
Noscitur a sociis
Maledicta est expositio quae corrumpit textum
Lex prospicit, non respicit
Lex de futuro, judex de praterito

Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant

Legis interpretatio legis vim obtinet

Meaning
From the words of the statute, there should be no departure
The law aids those who are vigilant, not those who slumber on their rights
Plain-meaning rule
Words ought to be more subservient to the intent and not the intent with the
words
A word is to be understood in the context in which it is used
The construction is to be sought which gives effect to the whole statute-its every
word
The useful is not vitiated with the non-useful
Where the law does not distinguish, we should not distinguish
Where there is a right, there is remedy
Follow past precedents and do not disturb what has been settled
Surplusage does not vitiate statutes
The voice of the people is the supreme law
Referring each word, phrases, and expressions to its appropriate object
The reason of the law is its soul
Interpretation according to spirit
Legislative ratification is equivalent to a mandate
What is prohibited directly is prohibited indirectly
He who is first in time is preferred in right
Priveleges are to be interpreted in accordance with the will of him who grants
them
Relating to same matter
The best interpreter of the law is the usage
The best interpreter of the statute is the statute itself
There can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which
the right depends
There is no crime without a penalty and there is no penalty without the law
No man should be allowed to take advantage of his own wrong
A new statute should affect the future not the past
Words construed with accompanying or associated words
It is dangerous construction which is against the text
The law looks forward not backward
The provides for the future, the judge for the past

A later law repeals a prior law on the same subject which is repugnant thereto
The authoritative interpretation of the court of a statute acquires the force of law
by becoming thereof