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Ex Legibus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. According to the laws. A phrase of the civil law, which the Digests declare to signify — according to the intent or spirit of the law, as well as according to the words or letter. (Ex legibus accipiendum est tam ex legum sententia qtiam ex verbis.) Dig. 50.

16. 6.

See Calv. Lex.