Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LEX PALCIDIA

LEX LONGOBARDORUM

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LEX FALCIDIA. InEomanlaw. The Falcidian law; a law passed on the motion of the tribune P. Falcidius, A.U. 0. 713, for bidding a testator to give more in legacies than three-fourths of all his estate, or, in other words, requiring him to leave at least one-fourth to the heir. lust. 2,22; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 2, tit. 22. Lex favet doti. Jenk. Cent. 50. The law favors dower. Lex flngit ubi subsistit eequitas. 11 Coke, 90. Tho law makes use of a fiction where equity subsists, LEX FOBI. The law of the forum, or court; that is, the positive law of the state, country, or jurisdiction of whose judicial system the court where the suit is brought or remedy sought is an integral part. "Remedies upon contracts and their incidents are regulated and pursued according to the law of the place where the action is instituted, and the lex loci has no application." 2 Kent, Comm 462. "The remedies are to be governed by the laws of the country where the suit is brought; or, as it is compendiously expressed, by the lex fort. " 8 Pet. 861, 372. "So far as the law affects the remedy, the lexfori, the law of the place where that rem edy is sought, must govern. But, so far as the law of the construction, the legal operation and effect, of the contract, is concerned, it is governed by the law of the place where the contract is made." 4 Mete. (Mass.) 594, 597. See LEX LOCI CONTBAO TUS. LEX FRANCOBUM. The law of the Franks; promulgated by Theodoric I., son of Clovis I., at the same time with the law of the Alemanni and Bavarians. Spelman. This was a different collection from the Salic law. LEX FBISIONUM. The law of the Frisians, promulgated about the middle of the eighth century. Spelman. LEX FUBIA CANINIA. In Roman law. The Furian Caninian law; a law passed in the consulship of P. Furius Camillus and C. Caninius Gallus, A. U. C. 752, prohibiting masters from manumitting by will more than a certain number or proportion of their slaves. This law was abrogated by Justin ian. Inst. 1, 7; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 1, tit. 7. LEX GOTHICA. The Gothic law, or law of the Goths. First promulgated in writing, A. D. 466. Spelman. LEX HOSTILIA DE FTTBTIS. A Roman law, which provided that a prosecu tion for theft might be carried on without the

owner's intervention. 4 Steph. Comm. (7tb Ed.) 118. LEX IMPEBATOBIA. The Imperial or Roman law. Quoted under this name, by Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 15; Id. lib. 3, c 10, §3. Lex intendit vioinum vicini facta scire. The law intends [or presumes] that one neighbor knows what another neighbor does. Co. Litt. 786. Lex judicat de rebus necessario fa ciendis quasi re ipsa factis. The law judges of things which must necessarily be done as if actually done. Branch, Princ LEX JUDICIALIS. An ordeal. LEX JULIA MAJESTATIS. In Ro man law. The Julian law of majesty; a law promulgated by Julius Cesar, and again pub lished with additions by Augustus, compre hending all the laws before enacted to punish transgressors against the state. Calvin. LEX LOCI. The law of the place. This may be of the following several desciiptions: Lex loci contractus, the law of the place where the contract was made or to be per formed ; lex loci actus, the law of the place where the act was done; lex loci rex sitct, the law of the place where the subject-matter is situated; lex loci domidlii, the law of the place of domicile. LEX LOCI CONTRACTUS. The law of the place of the contract. The local law which governs as to the nature, construction, and validity of a contract. LEX LOCI DELICTUS. The law of the place where the crime took place. LEX LOCI BEI SIT-ffi. The law of the place where a thing is situated. "It is equally settled in the law of all civilized countries that real property, as to its tenure, mode of enjoyment, transfer, and descent, is to be regulated by the lex loci rei site." 2 Kent, Comm. 429. LEX LOCI SOLUTIONS. The law of the place of solution; the law of the place where payment or performance of a contract is to be made. LEX LONGOBABDOBUM. The law of the Lombards. The name of an ancient code of laws among that people, framed, prob ably, between the fifth and eighth centuries. It continued in force after the incorporation of Lombardy into the empire of Charlemagne, and traces of its laws and institutions are

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