Lex Pratoria
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Roman law. The Pretorian law. A law by which every freedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety Lo his patron.
Inst. 3, 8,1.
The term has been applied to the rules that govern in a court of equity. Gilb. Ch. pf.
2.
Lex prospicit, non respicit.
Jenk. Cent. 284.
Thelaw looks forward, not backward.
Lex punit mendacium
The law punishes falsehood. Jenk. Cent, p.
15, case 26,