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Legem Sciscere

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Lat. Te give consent and authority toa proposed Jaw; applied to the consent of the people. Legem terre amittentes, perpetuam infamize notam inde merito incurrunt. Those who lose the law of the land, then justly incur the ineffaceable brand of infamy.

3 Inst, 221.