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But if it ''isn’t'' – if you act in [[good faith]], [[commercially reasonable manner|reasonably]], loving your [[neighbour]] as you love yourself; doing unto others only what you would have them do to you – you have little to fear from a literal construction. The common law is your friend. | But if it ''isn’t'' – if you act in [[good faith]], [[commercially reasonable manner|reasonably]], loving your [[neighbour]] as you love yourself; doing unto others only what you would have them do to you – you have little to fear from a literal construction. The common law is your friend. | ||
The {{tag|Latin}} maxim – ''[[anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]]'' (“little old ladies make bad law”), even though I made it up, may be the final, deepest foundation of the law of [[equity]]. It has a converse expression, also home made and converted into {{tag|Latin}} to make it sound plausible: [[ | The {{tag|Latin}} maxim – ''[[anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]]'' (“little old ladies make bad law”), even though I made it up, may be the final, deepest foundation of the law of [[equity]]. It has a converse expression, also home made and converted into {{tag|Latin}} to make it sound plausible: [[nolli mentula esse]]: don’t be a dick. Be clear about what you want, [[be a good egg]] and you have little to fear from her majesty’s judiciary. [[Bonum ovum esse]], you know? | ||
It is true that [[common law]] formulated in the service of [[wronged spinsters]] presents later courts who are bound by it with hefty intellectual challenges, but no self respecting judge shies away from those – they’re what {{sex|she}} took the oath for in the first place. | It is true that [[common law]] formulated in the service of [[wronged spinsters]] presents later courts who are bound by it with hefty intellectual challenges, but no self respecting judge shies away from those – they’re what {{sex|she}} took the oath for in the first place. | ||