Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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LEX MANIFESTA

LEX REGIA

•aid to be still discoverable in some parts of Italy. LEX MANIFESTA. Manifest or open law; the trial by duel or ordeal. The same with lex apparent, (q. v.) In King John's charter (chapter 38) and the articles of that charter (chapter 28) the word "manifestam" is omitted. LEX MERCATORIA. The law-mer chant. That system of laws which is adopt ed by all commercial nations, and constitutes a part of the law of the land. Lex necessitates est lex temporis; 1. e., instantis. The law of necessity is the law of the time; that is, of the instant, or pres ent moment. Hob. 159. Lex neminem cogit ad vana sen in utilia peragenda. The law compels no one to do vain or useless things. 5 Coke, 21a/ Co. Utt. 1976/ Broom, Max. 252. Lex neminem oogit ostendere quod nescire preesumitur. Lofft, 569. The law compels no one to show that which he is presumed not to know. Lex nemini facit injuriam. The law does injury to no one. Branch, Princ. Lex nemini operatur iniquum. The law works injustice to no one. Jenk. Cent, p. 18, case 33. Lex nil faoit frustra. The law does nothing in vain. 1 Ventr. 417; Jenk. Cent, p. 12, case 19; Broom, Max. 252. Lex nil frustra jubet. The law com mands nothing vainly. 3 Bulst. 280. Lex non a rege est violanda. Jenk. Cent. 7. The law is not to be violated by the king. Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. The law does not compel the doing of impossi bilities. Hob. 96; Broom, Max. 242. Lex non curat de minimis. Hob. 88. The law cares not about trifles. Lex non deficit in justitia exhibenda. The law does not fail in showing justice. Jenk. Cent. p. 31, case 61. Lex non exacte deflnit, sod arbitrio boni viri permittit. The law does not de fine exactly, but trusts in the judgment of a good man. 9 Mass. 475. Lex non favet delioatorum votis. The law favors not the wishes of the dainty. 9

Lex non intendit aliquid impossibile. The law does not intend anything impossi ble. 12 Coke, 89a. For otherwise the law should not be of any effect. Lex non patitur fraotiones et diviai ones statuum. The law does not suffer fractions and divisions of estates. Branch, Princ; 1 Coke, 87a. Lex non prsecipit inutilia, quia inu tilis labor stultus. Co. Litt. 197. The law commands not useless things, because useless labor is foolish. Lex non requirit veriflcari quod ap paret curise. The law does not require that to be verified [or proved] which is apparent to the court. 9 Coke, 546. LEX NON SCRIPTA. The unwritten or common law, which includes general and particular customs, and particular local laws. LEX ORDINANDL The same as lex fori t (q. v.) LEX PAPIA POPP.2EA. In Roman law. The Papian Poppaean law; a law pro posed by the consuls Papius and Poppaeus at the desire of Augustus, A. U. C. 762, enlarg ing the Lex Pratoria, (q. v.) Inst. 3, 8, 2. Lex plus laudatur quando ratione pro batur. The law is the more praised when it is approved by reason. Broom, Max. 159. Lex posterior derogat priori. A later statute takes away the effect of a prior one. But the later statute must either expressly repeal, or be manifestly repugnant to, the earlier one. Broom, Max. 29; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 7. LEX PRETORIA. In Roman law. The Praetorian law. A law by which every freedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety to his patron. Inst. 3, 8,1. The term has been applied to the rules that govern in a court of equity. Gilb. Ch. pt. 2. Lex prospioit, non respioit. Jenk. Cent. 284. The law looks forward, not back ward. Lex punit mendacium. The law pun ishes falsehood. Jenk. Cent. p. 15, case 26. LEX REGIA. In Roman law. The royal or imperial law. A law enacted (or supposed or claimed to have been enacted) by the Roman people, constituting the emperor a source of law, conferring the legislative power upon him, and according the force and obligation at law *•> the expression of hta

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