Showing posts with label Legal Maxims. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legal Maxims. Show all posts

Monday, June 7, 2021

Pari delicto

 




In Pari Delicto Potior Est Conditio Possidentis 

Legal Parlance.  A Latin phrase. 

..Meaning / English

"in equal fault ,better is the condition of the possessor." 


•√ When the parties are equally at wrong, the status of the possessor is  better than opponent wrongdoer. 

•√ A person at wrongful act cannot sue another person for doing the wrongful act. 

The Court will do:-

°¶ When two parties  are equally at wrong, courts will not interfere with the status quo. 

** The doctrine germinates from, DO EQUITY,HAVE EQUITY, come with clean hands, propounded by the Maxim infra:-

        “Fraus omnia corrumpit”, 

a Latin locution, is a founding principle of law, and is the climax of the doctrine of clean hands, also known as the “dirty hand doctrine”