法律英語基礎(chǔ)聽說900句:Part 6 法理 Jurisprudence

六、法理（Jurisprudence）

1.A subsequent ratification has a retrospective affect,

and be equivalent to a prior command.

2.Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

3.Fairness and justice in a jurisdiction

are realized case by case being settled properly.

4.Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.

5.Good order in the foundation of all things.

6.Ignorance of law excuses no one.

7.In a healthy legal system the values of order and justice
are not normally at cross-purposes.

8.In doubt,the milder course is to be followed.

9.Infancy is shield,not a sword.

10.It is an important step to replace the rule of men

with the urle of law in China's justice reforms.

11.It is better to fight for justice than to rail at the ill.

12.Justice must not only be done,but must be seen to be done.

13.Let right be done,though the heavens fall.

14.Like reason makes like law.

15.No man should benefit from his own injustice.

16.Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law

than those who make the law.

17.She who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

18.State ways cannot change folkways.

19.Suppression of the truth is the expression of what is false.

20.The history of liberty
has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

21.The place governs the act.

22.The rules must not be constantly changing.

23.The same transaction may give rise to both a civil and a criminal action.

24.The spoken word flies;the written word remains.

25.Though few are punished,the fear of punishment affects all.

26.Truth is afraid of nothing but concealment.

27.We must follow a strict interpretation of the rules.

28.Who pardons the bad,injures the good.

29.Without judicial review,statutory limits would be naught but empty words.

30.Wrong laws make short government.