Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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day that, incases where there is no precedent of the English courts, the civil law is always heard with respect, and often, though not necessarily, followed. Wharton. Lex semper dabit remedium. The law will always give a remedy. Branch, Prino; Broom, Max. 192. Lex semper lntendlt quod convenit rationi. Co. Litt. 786. The law always in tends what is agreeable to reason. LEX SITUS. Modern law Latin for "the law of the place where property is situ ated." The general rule is that lands and other immovables are governed by the lex sittis; i. e., by the law of the country in which they are situated. Westl. Priv. Int. Law, 62. Lex spectat naturae ordinem. The law regards the order of nature. Co. Litt. 1976. Lex succurrit ignoranti. Jenk. Cent. 15. The law assists the ignorant Lex suocurrit minoribus. The law aid* minors. Jenk. Cent. p. 51, case 97. LEX TALIONIS. The law of retalia tion; which requires the infliction upon a wrongdoer of the same injury which he ha» caused to another. Expressed in the Mosaic law by the formula, "an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth,"* etc. In modern interna tional law, the term describes the rule by which one state may inflict upon the citizens of another state death, imprisonment, or oth er hardship, in retaliation for similar injuries imposed upon its own citizens. LEX TEBB^S. The law of the land. The common law, or the due course of the common law; the general law of the land Bract, fol. 176. Equivalent to "due process of law." In the strictest sense, trial by oath; the privilege of making oath. Bracton uses the phrase to denote a freeman's privilege of be ing sworn in court as a juror or witness, which jurors convicted of perjury forfeited, (legem terras amittant.) Bract, fol. 2926. Lex uno ore omnes alloquitur. The law addresses all with one [the same] moutb or voice. 2 Inst. 184. Lex vigilantibus, non dormientibus, subvenit. Law assists the wakeful, not th» sleeping. 1 Story, Cont. § 529. LEX WALLENSICA. The Welsh law the law of Wales. Blount.

nere will or pleasure. See Inst. 1, 2, 6; jaius, 1, 5; Mackeld. Bom. Law, § 46; tfeinecc. Bom. Ant. 1. 1, tit. 2, §§ 62-67; 1 Sent, Comm. 544, note. LEX BEI SIT^I. The law of the place )f situation of the thing. Lex rejicit superfl.ua, pugnantia, in congrua. Jenk. Cent. 133. The law re jects superfluous, contradictory, and incon gruous things. Lex reprobat moram. Jenk. Cent. 35. The law dislikes delay. Lex respieit sequitatem. Co. Litt. 246. The law pays regard to equity. LEX BHODIA. The Bhodian law, par ticularly the fragment of it on the subject of jettison, (de jactu,) preserved in the Pan dects. Dig. 14, 2, 1; 3 Kent, Comm. 232, 233. LEX SACBAMENTALIS. Purgation by oath. LEX SALICA. The Salic law, or law of the Salian Franks, a Teutonic race who settled in Gaul in the fifth century. This ancient code, said to have been compiled about the year 420, embraced the laws and customs of that people, and is of great his torical value, in connection with the origins of feudalism and similar subjects. Its most celebrated provision was one which excluded women from the inheritance of landed es tates, by an extension of which law females were always excluded from succession to the crown of France. Hence this pro vision, by itself, is often referred to as the "Salic Law." LEX SCBIPTA. Written law; law de riving its force, not from usage, but from ex press legislative enactment; statute law. 1 Bl. Comm. 62, 85. Lex scripta si cesset, id oustodiri oportet quod moribus et oonsuetudine inductum est; et, si qua in re hoo defeeerit, tune id quod proximum et consequens ei est; et, si id non appar eat, tune jus quo urbs Eomana utitur servari oportet. 7 Coke, 19. If the writ ten law be silent, that which is drawn from manners and custom ought to be observed; and, if that is in any manner defective, then that which is next and analogous to it; and, if that does not appear, then the law which Borne uses should be followed. This maxim of Lord Coke is so far followed at the present

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