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Actio Leg Is

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In the Roman law. A legal or lawful action; an action of or at law. Dig. 1. 2. 2. 6, One of the sources of the unwritten law of Rome. Butler, Hor. Jur. 47. So called, according to Gaius, either because they were expressly given by the laws, or because they were expressed in the words of the laws. Gaius, Inst. iv. § 11.