Title 1, Title 1

(1) The termination date of a statute may be revised by amending the session law for the initial legislation that provided for the termination date. There is no limit on the number of times that a termination date may be revised pursuant to this section. (2) In the event of confl…

The maxims of jurisprudence set forth in part 2 of this chapter are intended not to qualify any of the other provisions of this code but to aid in their just application.

(Effective on occurrence of contingency) Mountain daylight time. (1) The year-round observed time of the entire state and all of the state's political subdivisions is mountain daylight time. The state exempts all areas of the state from mountain standard time. (2) As used in this…

When the reason of a rule ceases, so should the rule itself.

Where the reason is the same, the rule should be the same.

A person may not change the person's purpose to the injury of another.

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.

In the construction of an instrument, the office of the judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted. Where there are several provisions or particulars, such a co…

For the proper construction of an instrument, the circumstances under which it was made, including the situation of the subject of the instrument and of the parties to it, may also be shown so that the judge is placed in the position of those whose language the judge is to interp…

In the construction of an instrument, the intention of the parties is to be pursued if possible. When a general and particular provision are inconsistent, the latter is paramount to the former so a particular intent will control a general one that is inconsistent with it.

When an instrument is equally susceptible of two interpretations, one in favor of natural right and the other against it, the former is to be adopted.

When an instrument consists partly of written words and partly of a printed form and the two are inconsistent, the former control the latter.

The language of a writing is to be interpreted according to the meaning it bears in the place of its execution unless the parties have reference to a different place.

The terms of a writing are presumed to have been used in their primary and general acceptation, but evidence is nevertheless admissible that they have a local, technical, or otherwise peculiar signification and were so used and understood in the particular instance, in which case…

A written notice, as well as every other writing, is to be construed according to the ordinary acceptation of its terms. Thus, a notice to the drawers or endorsers of a draft or promissory note that it has been protested for want of acceptance or payment must be held to import th…

When used in any instrument, unless the clear and express terms of the instrument provide otherwise, the terms "coal", "gas", and "oil" must be construed as defined in 82-1-111.