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.