Lex Prœtoria
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The præ-torian law. A law by which every freedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety to his patron.
Inst 3, 8, 1.
The term has been applied to the rules that govern in a court of equity.
Gills Ch. pt 2.
Other specific meanings of the word in Roman jurisprudence were as follows: Positive law, as opposed to natural. That system of law which descended from the Twelve Tables, and formed the basis of all the Roman law. The terms of a private covenant; the condition of an obligation. A form of words prescribed to be used upon particular ocoa-sions. In medieval jurisprudence. A body or collection of various laws peculiar to a given nation or people; not a code in the modem sense, but an aggregation or collection of laws not codified or systematized.
See Mackeld.
Rom. Law, § 98.
Also a similar collection of laws relating to a general subject, and not peculiar to any one people.