Nothing is so natural as to dissolve a thing in the same manner in which it was bound.

Explanation

An instrument, obligation, or act is undone by the same method by which it was constituted; what was made by deed is dissolved by deed, what by consent is dissolved by consent.

Where this applies

• An agreement made by deed can only be dissolved by deed, not by a verbal statement.
• What was bound by contract should be unbound by the same method.
• The way something was put together should be the way it's taken apart.

See also

• 10.1.3 The whole is preferred to any single part.
• 10.4.1 Every definition in law is perilous, for there is little that cannot be subverted.