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Legitimus

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Lawful; legitimate. Legitimus haeres et filius est quern nuptiae demonstrant, a lawful son and heir is he whom the marriage points out to be lawful. Bracton, fol.

63.

LEGO (Lat.) In Roman law.

I bequeath

A common term in wills.

Dig. 30. 36. 81 et seq.

LEGULEIUS (Lat.) A person skilled In law {in legibus versatus); one versed in the forms of law.

Calv. Lex.; Cicero de Orat. 1.55.