Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 3. Maxims of Jurisprudence
Part 2. Text of Maxims

1-3-201. Obsolete reason, obsolete rule - 1-3-201. Obsolete reason, obsolete rule. When the reason of a...

1-3-202. Same reason, same rule - 1-3-202. Same reason, same rule. Where the reason is the...

1-3-203. Change in purpose - 1-3-203. Change in purpose. A person may not change the...

1-3-204. Waiver of benefit of law - 1-3-204. Waiver of benefit of law. Any person may waive...

1-3-205. Limit on rights - 1-3-205. Limit on rights. A person shall so use that...

1-3-206. Consent - 1-3-206. Consent. A person who consents to an act is...

1-3-207. Acquiescence - 1-3-207. Acquiescence. Acquiescence in error takes away the right of...

1-3-208. Own wrong -- no advantage - 1-3-208. Own wrong -- no advantage. A person may not...

1-3-209. Fraudulent dispossession - 1-3-209. Fraudulent dispossession. A person who has fraudulently dispossessed oneself...

1-3-210. Acts on one's behalf - 1-3-210. Acts on one's behalf. A person who can and...

1-3-211. Acts of others - 1-3-211. Acts of others. No one should suffer for the...

1-3-212. Benefit -- burden - 1-3-212. Benefit -- burden. A person who takes the benefit...

1-3-213. Grant includes essentials - 1-3-213. Grant includes essentials. One who grants a thing is...

1-3-214. Wrong -- remedy - 1-3-214. Wrong -- remedy. For every wrong there is a...

1-3-215. Equal in right or wrong - 1-3-215. Equal in right or wrong. Between those who are...

1-3-216. Preference to earliest - 1-3-216. Preference to earliest. Between rights otherwise equal, the earliest...

1-3-217. Beyond control - 1-3-217. Beyond control. A person is not responsible for that...

1-3-218. Vigilance - 1-3-218. Vigilance. The law helps the vigilant before those who...

1-3-219. Form and substance - 1-3-219. Form and substance. The law respects form less than...

1-3-220. What ought to have been done - 1-3-220. What ought to have been done. That which ought...

1-3-221. Apparent nonexistence - 1-3-221. Apparent nonexistence. That which does not appear to exist...

1-3-222. Impossibilities - 1-3-222. Impossibilities. The law never requires impossibilities. History: En. Sec....

1-3-223. Idle acts - 1-3-223. Idle acts. The law neither does nor requires idle...

1-3-224. Trifles - 1-3-224. Trifles. The law disregards trifles. History: En. Sec. 4624,...

1-3-225. Particular versus general - 1-3-225. Particular versus general. Particular expressions qualify those which are...

1-3-226. Preference for contemporaneity - 1-3-226. Preference for contemporaneity. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the...

1-3-227. Smaller within larger - 1-3-227. Smaller within larger. The greater contains the less. History:...

1-3-228. Superfluity - 1-3-228. Superfluity. Superfluity does not vitiate. History: En. Sec. 4628,...

1-3-229. Certainty - 1-3-229. Certainty. That is certain which can be made certain....

1-3-230. Void act - 1-3-230. Void act. Time does not confirm a void act....

1-3-231. Principal - 1-3-231. Principal. The incident follows the principal and not the...

1-3-232. Avoiding voidness - 1-3-232. Avoiding voidness. An interpretation which gives effect is preferred...

1-3-233. Reasonableness - 1-3-233. Reasonableness. Interpretation must be reasonable. History: En. Sec. 4633,...

1-3-234. Third parties -- who suffers - 1-3-234. Third parties -- who suffers. When one of two...