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off peak

Having less than maximal use or demand or activity of a period of time occurring as a defined part of a time

Gnomology

A collection of or a treatise on maxims grave sentences or reflections

Gnomic

Sententious uttering or containing maxims or striking detached thoughts aphoristic

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Domebook

to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law the penalties for misdemeanors and the forms of judicial proceedings Domebook was probably a

Bardism

The system of bards the learning and maxims of bards

Sic utere tuo ut alienum non l'das

9 Rep. 59.-(Use your own rights so that you do not hurt those of another.) See Broom's Legal Maxims, citing especially Bonomi v. Backhouse, (1861) 9 HLC 511; and also Fletcher v. Rylands, (1866) LR 1 Ex

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