No one may benefit from their own wrong: barred from profiting through procedural manipulation that frustrates others' legal rights. The maxim Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua propria precludes a person from deriving benefit from their own wrong; where a party deliberately manipulates procedures to defeat or frustrate the legal rights of others, equity and the rule of law bar that party from obtaining advantage through such misconduct as an equitable bar against abuse of process.
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No one may benefit from their own wrong: barred from profiting through procedural manipulation that frustrates others' legal rights.
The maxim Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua propria precludes a person from deriving benefit from their own wrong; where a party deliberately manipulates procedures to defeat or frustrate the legal rights of others, equity and the rule of law bar that party from obtaining advantage through such misconduct as an equitable bar against abuse of process.
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