1. Necessity makes permissible what is not permissible in law.

2. Things which have been introduced because of necessity must not be drawn into dispute.

3. Someone who is once evil is presumed to be always evil.

4. What affects everyone must be approved by everyone.

5. What is done publicly by a majority applies to all.

6. When a time limit is included to a testament, it is to be believed that it was included for the heir, unless the testator intended otherwise.

7. Things in a testament which are so written that they cannot be understood, are exactly as if they had not been written.

8. In penal cases the most favourable interpretation is to be made.

9. In almost all penal judgments there is mitigation on grounds of age and ignorance.

10. Inexperience is counted as a fault.

11. The general may be deduced from the particular.

12. The particular always inheres in the general.

13. The part is contained in the whole.

14. It is fitting for the secondary to be compatible with the principal.

15. When the main cause is not valid, those which follow have no standing.

16. Non debet, cui quod plus est licet, quod minus est non licere.

17. Non potest dolo carere, qui imperio magistratus non obtemperat.

18. Haereditas est successio in universum ius, quod defunctus habuit tempore mortis.

19. Quibus rebus mobilibus praeficiuntur per defuncti testamentum, haeredes testamentarii sive executores appellamus.

20. Haeredis appellatione omnes significari successores credendum est.

[261v; 150b] 21. Nulla mora ibi intelligitur ubi nulla petitio est.

22. Qui dolo desiit possidere, pro possessore damnatur.

23. Quicquid calore iracundiae vel fit [vel/﹛a﹜ut] dicitur, non prius ratum est, quam si perseverantia apparuerit iudicium animi fuisse.

24. Quoties idem sermo duas sententias exprimit, eapotissimumaccipiatur, quae rei gerendae aptior est.

25. In dubiis benigniora sunt praeferenda.

26. In obscuris quod minimum est sequendum.

[262r] 27. Secundum naturam est, commoda cuiusque rei eum sequi, quem sequuntur ﹛in﹜commoda.

28. Vani t[im/emp]oris non iusta excusatio est.

29. Ratihabit﹛at﹜io retrahitur, et mandato aequiparatur.

30. Ratum quis habere non potest, quod ipsius nomine gestum non est.

31. Cum sint partium iura obscura, reo favendum est potius quam actori.