Leges tabellariae
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. Roman laws regulating the mode of voting by ballot, (tabeila.) 1 Kent, Comm. 232, note, Leges vigilantibus, non dormientibus, subveniunt. The laws aid the vigilant, not the negligent.
5 Johns. Ch. 122, 145; 16 How. Pr. 142, 144.