Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LEGES NON VERBIS, ETC.

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proposed law; to make or pass it. Tayl. Civil Law, 9. LEGEM SCISCERE. Lat. To give consent and authority to a proposed law; ap plied to the consent of the people. Legem terr© amittentes, perpetuam infamise notam inde merito incurrunt. Those who lose the law of the land, then justly incur the ineffaceable brand of in famy. 3 Inst. 221. LEGEM VADIARE. In old English law. To wage law; to offer or to give pledge to make defense, by oath, with compurgators. LEGES. Lat. Laws. At Rome, the leges (the decrees of the people in a strict sense) were laws which were proposed by a magis trate presiding in the senate, and adopted by the Roman people in the comitia centuriata. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 31. LEGES ANGLL3B. Lat. The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign systems. Leges Angliffi sunt tripartitee,—jus commune, consuetudines, ac decreta comitiorum. The laws of England are threefold,—common law, customs, and de crees of parliament. Leges figendi et reflgendi consuetudo est periculosissima. The practice of fixing and reflxing [making and remaking] the laws is a most dangerous one. 4 Coke, pref. Leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, et moriuntur. Human laws are born, live, and die. 7 Coke, 25; 2 Atk. 674; 11 C. B. 767; 1 Bl. Comtn. 89. Leges natures perfectissimaa sunt et immutabiles; humani vero juris condl tio semper in infinitum decurrit, et nihil est in eo quod perpetuo stare possit. Leges humanse nascuntur, vivunt, mo riuntur. The laws of nature are most per fect 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. LEGES NON SCRIPTS. Lat. la 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. Leges non verbis, sed rebus, sunt im positae. Laws are imposed, not on words, but things. 10 Coke, 101; Branch, Frinc.

LEGATORY. The third part of a free man's personal estate, which by the custom of London, in case he had a wife and children, the freeman might always have disposed of by will. Bac. Abr. "Customs of London," D. 4. Legatos violare contra jus gentium est. 4 Coke, pref. It is contrary to the law of nations to injure ambassadors. LEGATUM. Lat. In the civil law. A legacy; a gift left by a deceased person, to be executed by the heir. Inst. 2, 20, 1. In old English law. A legacy given to the church, or an accustomed mortuary. Cowell. Legatum morte testatoris tantum con firmatur, sicut donatio inter vivos tra ditione sola. Dyer, 143. A legacy is con firmed by the death of a testator, in the same manner as a gift from a living person is by delivery alone. LEGATUM OPTIONIS. 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 {hceres) could not, prior to Justinian, make the se lection for him, but the legacy failed alto gether. Justinian, however, made the leg acy good, and enabled the representative to choose. Brown. Legatus regis vice fungitur a quo des tinatur et honorandus est sicut ille cujus vicem gerit. 12 Coke, 17. An ambassa dor fills the place of the king by whom he is sent, and is to be honored as he is whose place he fills. LEGEM AMITTERE. Lat. To lose one's law; that is, to lose one's privilege of being admitted to take an oath. LEGEM FACERE. L. Lat. In old En glish law. To make law or oath. LEGEM FERRE. Lat. JnRomanlaw. To propose a law to the people foi their adop tion. Heinecc. Ant. Rom. lib. 1, tit. 2. LEGEM HABERE. Lat. To be capa ble of giving evidence upon oath. Wit nesses who had been convicted of crime were incapable of giving evidence, until 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85. LEGEM JTTBERE. Lat. In Roman law. To give consent and authority to a

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