Maxims of Law

Kent’s Com., 553. So fundamental are these maxims that he who disputes their authority is regarded as beyond the reach of reason. Contra negantem principia non est disputandum. Coke says, “Maxims of law are holden for law.” Coke, Litt, 11, 67; and Bacon says, “They are the fountains of justice from which flow all civil laws.” In Box v. Tanier, 4 Cates, 409, Beard, Ch. J., says, “Maxims have their foundation in universal law; they are embodied in the common law, and are an essential part of its warp and woof.”