Ley
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Law. The old French equivalent of the English word law, and the Latin lex. Frequently used, like those words, in the technical sense of an oath with compurgators, or the mode of trial with compurgators. Thus the expression ley gager is equivalent to wager of law, or to make wager of law; in Latin, legem vadiare. So fesans de ley — doing of the law — correspolids to legem facere.