Legal Term Dictionary

In Roman law. A legacy to A. B. of any article or articles that A. B. liked to choose or select out of the testator's estate. If A. B. died after the testator, but before making the choice or selection, his representative (hares) could not, prior to Justinian, make the More...

In Roman law. A legacy to A. B. of any article or articles that A. B. liked to choose or select out of the testator's estate. If A. B. died after the testator, but before making the choice or selection, his representative (hares) could not, prior to Justinian, make the selection for him, but the legacy failed altogether. Justinian, however, made the legacy good, and enabled the representative to choose. Brown. Lsgatus regis rice fungitur a quo des-tinatnr et honorandus est siont illc cujus ?icem gerlt. 12 Coke. 17. An ambassador fills the place of the king by whom he is sent, and is to be honored as he is whose place he fills. Less...

Lat. Accusative of lex, law. Occurring in various legal phrases, as follows: -Legem amittere. To lose one's law; that is, to lose one's privilege of being admitted to take an oath.-Legem facere. In old English law. To make law or oath.-Legem ferre. In Roman law. To propose a law to More...

Lat. Accusative of lex, law. Occurring in various legal phrases, as follows: -Legem amittere. To lose one's law; that is, to lose one's privilege of being admitted to take an oath.-Legem facere. In old English law. To make law or oath.-Legem ferre. In Roman law. To propose a law to the people for their adoption. Heinecc. Ant. Rom. lib. 1, tit 2.-Legem habere. To be capable of giving evidence upon oath. Witnesses who had been convicted of crime were incapable of giving evidence, until 6 & 7 Vict, c 85.-Legem jubere. In Roman law. To give consent and authority to a proposed law;. to make or pass it. Tayl. Civil Law, 9.-Legem pone. To propound or lay down the law. By an extremely obscure derivation or analogy, this term was formerly used as a slang equivalent for payment in cash or in ready money.-Legem scisoere. To give consent and authority to a proposed law; applied to the consent of the people.-Legem Tadiaro. In old English . law. To wage law; to offer or to give pledge to make defense, by oath, with compurgators. Legem terras amittentes, perpetuam infamies notam inde merito lneurmnt. Those who lose the law of the land, then justly incur the ineffaceable brand of infamy. 8 Inst 221. Less...

Lat. Laws. At Rome, the leges (the decrees of the people in a strict sense) were laws which were proposed by a magistrate presiding in the senate, and adopted by the Roman people in the comitia centuriata. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 31. -Leges Anglian. The laws of England, as distinguished More...

Lat. Laws. At Rome, the leges (the decrees of the people in a strict sense) were laws which were proposed by a magistrate presiding in the senate, and adopted by the Roman people in the comitia centuriata. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 31. -Leges Anglian. The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign systems.-Leges mon scriptse. In English law. Unwritten or customary laws, including those ancient acts of parliament which were made before time of memory. Hale, Com. Law, 5. See 1 Bl. Comm. 63, 64.-Logos scriptse. In English law. Written laws; statute laws, or acts of parliament which are originally reduced into writing before they are enacted, or receive any binding power. Hale, Com. Law, 1, 2.-Leges sub graviori lego. Laws under a weightier law. Hale, Com. Law, 46, 44.-Leges tabellarise. Roman laws regulating the mode of. voting by ballot, (tabella.) 1 Kent, Comm. 232, note. Logos Angliee snnt tripartita*,^jns commune, oonsuetudines, ao dcoreta comitiomm. The laws of England are threefold,-common law, customs, and decrees of parliament Leges ngendi ot rengendi consuetude est porionlosissima. The practice of fixing and reflxing [making and remaking] the laws is a most dangerous one. 4 Coke, pref. Leges hum an BP* nascuntur, vivunt, at morinntnr. Human laws are born, live, and die. 7 Coke, 25; 2 Atk. 674; 11 C. 8. 767; 1 Bl. Comm. 89. Leges naturae perfeetissimss sunt ot immntabiles) human! vcro juris conditio semper in infinitum deourrlt, et nihil est in eo qnod perpetuo stare possit. Leges humanse nascuntur, vivunt, morinntnr. The laws of nature are most perfect and immutable; but the condition of human law is an unending succession, and there is nothing in it which can continue perpetually. Human laws are born, live, and die. 7 Coke. 25. o Leges mon Terbis, sod rebus, sunt im-positse. Laws are imposed, not on words, but things. 10 Coke, 101; Branch, Princ. Logos posteriores priores oontrarias nbrogant. Later laws abrogate prior laws that are contrary to them. Broom, Max. 27, 29. . Legos suum o llgent latorem. Laws should bind their own maker. Fleta, lib. 1, a 17, | 1L Leges vigilantibus, non dormientibus, sulrveniunt. The laws aid the vigilant, not the negligent Smith v. Carll, 5 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 122, 145 ; Toole r. Cook, 16 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 142, 144. Less...

Lat. Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. An expression applied in the Roman civil law to the emperor. Calvin. Leglbns snmptis desinentibns, lego matun ntendum est. When laws imposed by the state fail, we must act by the law of nature. 2 Rolle, 208.

Lat. Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. An expression applied in the Roman civil law to the emperor. Calvin. Leglbns snmptis desinentibns, lego matun ntendum est. When laws imposed by the state fail, we must act by the law of nature. 2 Rolle, 208. Less...

In old records. Litigious, and so subjected to a course of law. Cowell. Legis eonstrnotio non faoit injnriam. Co. Litt 183. The construction of law does no injury. Legis intorpretatio legis rim obtinet. Ellesm. Postn. 55. The interpretation of law obtains, the force of law. Legis minister non tenetur in More...

In old records. Litigious, and so subjected to a course of law. Cowell. Legis eonstrnotio non faoit injnriam. Co. Litt 183. The construction of law does no injury. Legis intorpretatio legis rim obtinet. Ellesm. Postn. 55. The interpretation of law obtains, the force of law. Legis minister non tenetur in eneou-tlone officii sui, fugere ant retrooedere. The minister of the law is bound, in the execution of his office, not to fly nor to retreat Branch, Princ Less...

The act of giving or enacting laws. State v. Hyde, 121 Ind. 20, 22 N. E. 644.

The act of giving or enacting laws. State v. Hyde, 121 Ind. 20, 22 N. E. 644. Less...

Making or giving laws; pertaining to the function of law-making or to the process of enactment of laws. See Evansville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. EL 267, 4 L. R. A. 93. --Legislative department. That department of government whose appropriate function is the making or enactment of laws, More...

Making or giving laws; pertaining to the function of law-making or to the process of enactment of laws. See Evansville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. EL 267, 4 L. R. A. 93. --Legislative department. That department of government whose appropriate function is the making or enactment of laws, as distinguished from the judicial department, which interprets and applies the laws, and the executive department, which carries them into execution and effect. See In re Davies, 168 N. Y. 89, 61 N. E. 118, 56 L. R. A. 855.-Legislative officer. A member of the legislative body or department of a state or municipal corporation. See Prosecuting Attorney v. Judge of Recorder's Court, 59 Mich. 529, 26 N. W. 694.-Legislative power. The lawmaking power; the department of government whose function is the framing and enactment of laws. Evansville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. E. 267. 4 L. R. A. 93; Sanders v. Cabaniss, 43 Ala. 180; Brown v. Galveston, 97 Tex. 1, 75 S. W. 495; O'Neil v. American F. Ins. Co., 160 Pa. 72, 30 AtL 943, 26 L. R. A. 715, 45 Am. St. Rep. 650. Less...

One who makes laws; a member of a legislative body. Legislatorum est viva vox, rebus et non verbis legem imponere. The voice of legislators la a living voice, to impose laws on things, and not on words. 10 Coke, 10L

One who makes laws; a member of a legislative body. Legislatorum est viva vox, rebus et non verbis legem imponere. The voice of legislators la a living voice, to impose laws on things, and not on words. 10 Coke, 10L Less...

The department, assembly, or body of men that makes laws for a state or nation; a legislative body.

The department, assembly, or body of men that makes laws for a state or nation; a legislative body. Less...

Lat. A person skilled or learned in the law; a lawyer or advocate. Feud. lib. 2, tit 1.

Lat. A person skilled or learned in the law; a lawyer or advocate. Feud. lib. 2, tit 1. Less...