法律谚语

作为法律人，你听过下面这些英文谚语吗？

或许，总有一句谚语能够触动你的心灵，让你更加深刻理解法律的内涵。

1、Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good.

法律是维护公众利益的理性条令。

2、No crime without law making it so; no penalty without law making it so.

法无明文规定者不为罪,法无明文规定者不处罚。 

3、Equity is a correction of common legal rules in their defective parts.

衡平法是对普通法律规则中瑕疵部分的矫正。 

4、Evidence in a court of law, only, no fact.

在法庭上，只有证据，没有事实。

5、No one is above the law.

任何人不能凌驾于法律之上。 

6、Program is the rule of law and artificially divide and rule.

程序是法治和恣意而治的分水岭。 

7、if the law fear supports, it will not take effect.

如果法律没有恐惧支撑，它绝不能生效。

8、the true meaning of the law, is that there is no absolute freedom, more no absolute equality.

法律的真谛，就是没有绝对的自由，更没有绝对的平等。 

9、freedom is not unlimited freedom, freedom is a kind of power to do anything which is permitted by law.

自由不是无限制的自由，自由是一种能做法律许可的任何事的权力。 

10、if there is no law they will be more happy, then the law as a useless thing in the world will destroy itself.

假如没有法律他们会更愉悦的话，那么法律作为一件无用之物自我就会消灭。 

11、freedom is the right within the scope permitted by law.

自由就是做法律许可范围内的事情的权利。 

12、Common morality is the foundation of society, common conscience is the basis of the law.

普遍的道德是社会的基础，普遍的良心是法律的基础。 

13、No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.

没有哪个社会能够制订一部永远适用的宪法，甚至一条永远适用的法律。 

14、One of the best law come from habits.

最好的法律从习惯产生。 

15、Where law ends, tyranny begins.

法律的终点便是暴政的起点。

16、Arms and laws do not flourish together.

武力与法律不能同时兴盛。

17、 Law is an utterance determined by the common consent of the commonwealth.

法律是全体公民一致同意所决定意见之表达。 

18、Law that is deficient is better than law that is uncertain.

有瑕疵的法律胜于不确定的法律。 

19、Laws are made to prevent the stronger from having the power to do everything.

法律旨在防止强者滥用权力为所欲为。

20、Every law has no atom of strength, as far as no public opinion supports it. 

若无公众舆论支持,法律是没有丝毫力量的。

21、Law can never be enforced unless fear supports it.

没有威慑力的法律绝对不会具有效力。

22、Law must be stable and it cannot stand still.

法律必须保持稳定但却不能一成不变。

23、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。

24、Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

法律吸吮穷人的膏血，而富人却掌握着权柄。

25、Punishment is justice for the unjust.

惩罚是对正义的伸张。

26、Really, what we want now, is not laws, against crime, but a law against insanity.

实际上，我们想要的不是针对犯罪的法律，而是针对疯狂的法律。

27、The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.

法律不能使人人平等，但是在法律面前人人是平等的。

28、In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

在文明的生活中，法律漂浮在道德的海洋上。

29、The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince.

不是君主高于法律，而是法律高于君主。

30、The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.

如果犯罪之人被判无罪，法官应该判刑。

31、There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

公平与不公平仅一线之隔。

32、It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

经验告诉我们绝妙的法律及正确的先例来源于他人的犯罪基础上的。

33、Guilt always hurries towards its complement , punishment; only there does its satisfaction liE．

犯罪总是以惩罚相补偿；只有处罚才能使犯罪得到偿还。

34、If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

倘若世上没有坏人，也就不会有好的律师。

35、Law can never be enforced unless fear supports it.

如果法律没有恐惧支撑，它绝不能生效。

36、The law often allows what honor forbids.

法律允许的而道义上常常禁止。

37、No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

由民众意见支持的不成文习惯法比成文法更具约束力。

38、A later statute takes away the effect of a prior one.

后法优于前法。

39、The law is no say in the presence of violence.

法律在暴力面前是没有发言权的。

40、The law should be iron, like chains.

法律应该是铁的，像铁锁那样。

41、Every law has a loop hole.

凡是法律皆有漏洞。

42、Law is a exercise in communication between authority and the public. 

法律是当权者与大众之间进行交流的一种运作方式。

43、Law is established for the benefit of man.

法是为人类利益而制定的。

44、 Law is the science of what is good and just.

法乃善良公平之道。

45、Substantial law defines rights, and procedural law establishes the procedures by which rights are protected and enforced.

实体法界定权利，程序法则制定保护和实施权利的秩序。

46、Law is both an instrument of change and a result of changes.

法律既是变革的工具又是诸多变革的结果。

47、The clear legal provisions, the provisions is easy to line.

法律规定得愈明确，其条文就愈容易切实行。

48、Law, the lives of the people also, to conquer this also.

法令者，民之命也，为治之本也。

49、Law is law, just or not.

无论正义与否,法律就是法律。

50、I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

我不同意你说的话，但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。