"The law helps the vigilant, before those who sleep on their rights."
— Rights

January 1, 1970

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Legal maxim, reported in Oscar B. Parkinson, Outlines of Commercial Law: A Text Book for Schools and Colleges (1912), p. 234. Sometimes reported as "equity" rather than "the law" at the quotation's beginning.