Leges

Lat. Laws. At Rome, the leges (the decrees of the people in a strict sense) were laws which were proposed by a magistrate presiding in the senate, and adopted by the Roman people in the comitia centuriata Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 31.

— Leges Angliæ. The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign systems

— Leges non scriptæ. In English law. Unwritten or customary laws, including those ancient acts of parliament which were made before time of memory. Hale, Com. Law, 5. See 1 Bl. Comm. 63, 64.

— Leges scriptæ. In English law. Written laws ; statute laws, or acts of parliament which are originally reduced into writing before they are enacted. or receive any binding power. Hale, Com. Law, 1, 2.

— Leges snb graviori lege. Laws under a weightier law. Hale, Com. Law, 46, 44.

— Leges tabellariae. Roman laws regulating the mode of voting by ballot, (tabella.) i Kent, Comm. 232, note.