Jurisprudence 法理
- A subsequent ratification has a retrospective affect, and be equivalent to a prior command.
事后追认有溯及力，等同先前命令。 - Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
绝对权力绝对腐败。 - Fairness and justice in a jurisdiction are realized case by case being settled properly.
司法的公正和正义是通过案件逐一得到妥善解决予以实现的。 - Give a thief enough rope and he’ll hang himself.
多行不义必自毙。 - Good order is the foundation of all things.
良好的秩序是一切之基础。 - Ignorance of law excuses no one.
不知法不能成为任何人逃避法律的借口。 - In a healthy legal system the values of order and justice are not normally at cross-purposes.
在健全的法律制度中，秩序和正义这两个价值一般不会冲突。 - In doubt, the milder course is to be followed.
遇有疑义时应遵循从宽原则。 - Infancy is a shield, not a sword.
未成年可作为抗辩之理由，但不能作为攻击之借口。 - It is an important step to replace the rule of men with the rule of law in China’s justice reforms.
以法治代替人治是中国司法改革的重要一步。 - It is better to fight for justice than to rail at the ill.
与其责骂罪恶，不如伸张正义。 - Justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done.
正义不仅应得到实现，而且还应以人们看得见的方式得到实现。 - Let right be done, though the heavens fall.
秉公办事，何惧天塌下来。 - Like reason makes like law.
相似的理由导致相似的规则。 - No man should benefit from his own injustice.
没有人应当从自己的过错中获益。 - Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
法律制定者比谁都更具有守法之神圣义务。 - She who comes to equity come with clean hands.
自身清白者方能获得衡平救济。 - State ways cannot change folkways.
国家手段不能改变社会习俗。 - Suppression of the thuth is the expression of what is false.
压抑真相，犹如做伪。 - The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
自由的历史在很大程度上是遵守秩序保障条款的历史。 - The place governs the act.
场所支配行为。 - The rules must not be constantly changing.
规则不得朝令夕改。 - The same transaction give rise to both a civil and a criminal action.
同一活动可能会导致民事和刑事诉讼。 - The spoken word flies; the written word remains.
口说无凭，立此为证。 - Though few are punished, the fear of punishment affects all.
惩一儆百。 - Truth is afraid of nothing but concealment.
真相无所惧。唯怕被隐瞒。 - We must follow a strict interpretation of the rules.
我们必须对规则严格解释。 - Who pardons the bad. injures the good.
宽恕坏人必伤及好人。 - Without judicial review. statutory limits would be naught but empty words.
没有司法审查。法定权限将只是一句空话。 - Wrong laws makes short government.
法制不健全。统治也短命。
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