Legantine Constitutions
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods, held under legates from Popes Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Hen. III., about the years 1220 and 1268..
I Bl. Comm. 83. Burns says, 1287 and 1268. 2 Burn, Ecc. Law, 30d.
LEGARE (Lat.) In the civil and old English law. To bequeath; to leave or give by will; to give in anticipation of death. In Scotch phrase, to legate. Bracton, fol.
18b.
Applied to real, as well as personal, property.