Extreme law is extreme injury.

Explanation

The rigid application of a legal rule to its utmost extreme produces the greatest injustice — this maxim is the classical warrant for equity's intervention wherever strict law would work manifest wrong.

Where this applies

• Applying a law to its absolute extreme produces a terrible injustice.
• A party insists on the strictest possible interpretation of a contract to the other side's ruin.

See also

• 1.4.3 Equity is the correction of the law where, by reason of its generality, it is deficient.
• 1.4.7 Nothing is more unjust than to extend equity too far.
• 1.5.23 Extremities or subtleties of law are not law.