Note 93.1 — LOS INTERESES CREADOS

summum jus, summa injuria. A Latin saying found in Cicero, De Officiis, 1, 10, 33, where it is quoted as proverbial. It means literally "extreme law (justice) is extreme injustice," and refers to cases where law is rigorously applied without regard to equity or to circumstances. As Cicero puts it (in De Officiis, just before the proverb quoted): "Injuries often exist through a certain chicanery and an over-adroit but malicious interpretation of the law." A similar phrase is found in Terence, Heauton Timoroumenos, vs. 796: jus summum saepe summa est malitia.