Legal security comes from adapting rules, not from freezing them.

Evidence

This search for a static security—in the law or elsewhere—is misguided. The fact is that security can only be achieved through constant change, through the wise discarding of old ideas that have outlived their usefulness, and through the adapting of others to current facts. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2496

Categorization

• XREF: Counters the predictability rationale for stare decisis by redefining security as adaptability.
• APHORISMS: A general maxim about how stability is actually produced in any institution.