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Lex terrae

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

The law of the land. The common law, or the due course of the common law; the general law of the land. Bract. fol.

175.

Equivalent to "due process of law." In the strictest sense, trial by oath; the privilege of making oath. Bracton uses the phrase to denote a freeman's privilege of being sworn in court as a juror or witness, which jurors convicted of perjury forfeited, (legem terrae amittant.) Bract. fol.

292b.

Lex uno ore omnes alloquitur

The law addresses all with one [the same] mouth or voice.

2 Inst. 184.

Lex vigilantibus, non dormientibus, subvenit. Law assists the wakeful, not the sleeping.

1 Story, Cont. § 629.