Good Faith
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good faith · bona fide · bona fides · faith · in good faith · the good faith of kings and nations
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The moral obligation to keep one's word according to its intended meaning, underlying the whole doctrine of treaty interpretation.
Good faith, observes Cicero, requires that a man should consider as well what he intends, as what he says.
From what has been said an inference may be drawn in favour of sworn treaties or agreements that they ought to be taken in the most usual acception of the words, rejecting all implied limitations and exceptions, and such as are not immediately necessary to the subject.
Both public, private, and mixed, conventions admit of tacit consent, which is allowed by custom.
The Law of Torts
A recurring standard of honest intention that qualifies defences and exceptions throughout the draft code.
Immunity of statements in good faith on privileged occasion.
(3) A statement made on a privileged occasion is presumed to have been made in good faith.
It is not defamation to publish in good faith any fair comment on matter of public interest or open to public criticism, or a correct and fair report of a public judicial or legislative proceeding;
Institutes of Roman Law
The honest belief that one is receiving property from its true owner, a general condition for ordinary usucapion.
Vnde in rebus mobilibus non facile procedit, ut bonae fidei possessori usucapio conpetat, quia qui alienam rem uendidit et tradidit furtum committit;
Accordingly, in things movable a possessor in good faith cannot easily acquire ownership by usucapion, because he that sells and delivers possession of a thing belonging to another is guilty of theft.
Ceterum etiam earum rerum usucapio nobis conpetit, quae non a domino nobis traditae fuerint, siue mancipi sint eae res siue nec mancipi, si modo eas bona fide acceperiinus, cum crederemus eum qui traderet dominum esse.