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[[File:Fifteenth Anniversary (Fabergé egg).jpg|450px|thumb|center|A jolly [[good egg]], Yesterday]] | [[File:Fifteenth Anniversary (Fabergé egg).jpg|450px|thumb|center|A jolly [[good egg]], Yesterday]] | ||
}}{{Maxim|Bonum ovum esse}}, or why it behoves you to be a good {{t|egg}}. | }}{{Maxim|Bonum ovum esse}}, or why it behoves you to be a good {{t|egg}}. | ||
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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: ''[[noli mentula esse]]'': don’t be a | 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: ''[[noli mentula esse]]'': ''don’t be a penis''. 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. | ||