California Code
DIVISION 4 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
PART 4 - MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE

Section 3509. - 3509. The maxims of jurisprudence hereinafter set forth are intended...

Section 3510. - 3510. When the reason of a rule ceases, so should...

Section 3511. - 3511. Where the reason is the same, the rule should...

Section 3512. - 3512. One must not change his purpose to the injury...

Section 3513. - 3513. Any one may waive the advantage of a law...

Section 3514. - 3514. One must so use his own rights as not...

Section 3515. - 3515. He who consents to an act is not wronged...

Section 3516. - 3516. Acquiescence in error takes away the right of objecting...

Section 3517. - 3517. No one can take advantage of his own wrong....

Section 3518. - 3518. He who has fraudulently dispossessed himself of a thing...

Section 3519. - 3519. He who can and does not forbid that which...

Section 3520. - 3520. No one should suffer by the act of another....

Section 3521. - 3521. He who takes the benefit must bear the burden....

Section 3522. - 3522. One who grants a thing is presumed to grant...

Section 3523. - 3523. For every wrong there is a remedy. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3524. - 3524. Between those who are equally in the right, or...

Section 3525. - 3525. Between rights otherwise equal, the earliest is preferred. (Enacted...

Section 3526. - 3526. No man is responsible for that which no man...

Section 3527. - 3527. The law helps the vigilant, before those who sleep...

Section 3528. - 3528. The law respects form less than substance. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3529. - 3529. That which ought to have been done is to...

Section 3530. - 3530. That which does not appear to exist is to...

Section 3531. - 3531. The law never requires impossibilities. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3532. - 3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts. (Enacted...

Section 3533. - 3533. The law disregards trifles. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3534. - 3534. Particular expressions qualify those which are general. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3535. - 3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3536. - 3536. The greater contains the less. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3537. - 3537. Superfluity does not vitiate. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3538. - 3538. That is certain which can be made certain. (Enacted...

Section 3539. - 3539. Time does not confirm a void act. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3540. - 3540. The incident follows the principal, and not the principal...

Section 3541. - 3541. An interpretation which gives effect is preferred to one...

Section 3542. - 3542. Interpretation must be reasonable. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 3543. - 3543. Where one of two innocent persons must suffer by...

Section 3545. - 3545. Private transactions are fair and regular. (Added by Stats....

Section 3546. - 3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature...

Section 3547. - 3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is...

Section 3548. - 3548. The law has been obeyed. (Added by Stats. 1965,...