Title 1, Title 1

Any person may waive the advantage of a law intended solely for that person's benefit. A law established for a public reason cannot be contravened by a private agreement.

A person shall so use that person's own rights as not to infringe upon the rights of another.

A person who consents to an act is not wronged by it.

Acquiescence in error takes away the right of objecting to it.

A person may not take advantage of the person's own wrong.

A person who has fraudulently dispossessed oneself of a thing may be treated as if the person still had possession.

A person who can and does not forbid that which is done on that person's behalf is considered to have authorized it.

No one should suffer for the act of another.

A person who takes the benefit shall bear the burden.

One who grants a thing is presumed to grant also whatever is essential to its use.

For every wrong there is a remedy.

Between those who are equally in the right or equally in the wrong, the law does not interpose.

Between rights otherwise equal, the earliest is preferred.

A person is not responsible for that which a person cannot control.

The law helps the vigilant before those who sleep on their rights.

The law respects form less than substance.

That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done, in favor of a person to whom and against a person from whom performance is due.

That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.

The law never requires impossibilities.

The law neither does nor requires idle acts.

The law disregards trifles.

Particular expressions qualify those which are general.

Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.

The greater contains the less.

Superfluity does not vitiate.

That is certain which can be made certain.

The incident follows the principal and not the principal the incident.

An interpretation which gives effect is preferred to one which makes void.

Interpretation must be reasonable.

When one of two innocent persons suffers by the act of a third, the person by whose negligence it happened must be the sufferer.