Actiones Legis

Inthe Romanlaw. Legal or lawful actions; actions of orat law, (legitime actiones.) Dig. 1,2, 2, 6.

Lat.

In the Roman law. Legal or lawful actions; actions of, or at law; (legitimae actiones,) Dig. 1. 2. 2. 6. So called, according to Gaius, either because they were expressly given by the laws (quod legibus prodita erant,) or because they were adapted to, or expressed in the words of the laws, (quia ipsarum legum verbis accommodatae erant;) being on that account regarded as immutable as the laws themselves, (immutabiles proinde atque leges observabantur.) Gaius, iv. § 11. These constituted the most ancient system of judicial remedy among the Romans, and were subject to very strict rules; the slightest error or deviation from the prescribed form being fatal to the action, (ut qui vel minimum errasset litem perderet.) Id. § 30. They were abolished by the Lex Aebutia, and the two Leges Juliae, and the formula (per concepta verba) substituted in their place. Id. ibid. See Actio.