The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur.

Explanation

Law cannot anticipate every possible circumstance — it addresses the ordinary course of events, and rare or extraordinary cases do not invalidate a rule that serves the common situation.

Where this applies

• A rare edge case is used to argue that a general law is invalid.
• Someone challenges a law because it does not cover an extremely unusual situation.

See also

• 1.2.10 Many things in the common law have been introduced, for the public good, which are inconsistent with abstract reasoning.
• 1.5.7 The law always intends what is agreeable to reason.
• 1.5.17 Nothing is invented and perfected at the same moment.