Law Dictionary

To be capable of giving evidence upon oath. Witnesses who had been convicted of crime were incapable of giving evidence, until 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85.

To ratify a proposed law.

To propound or lay down the law. By an extremely obscure derivation or analogy, this term was formerly used as a slang equivalent for payment in cash or m ready money.

To give consent and authority to a proposed law; applied to the consent of the people.

Those who lose the law of the land thereby justly incur the everlasting mark of disgrace.

Those who lose the law of the land, then justly incur the ineffaceable brand of Infamy. 3 Inst. 221.

To wage one's law. LEGES (Lat.) I In Civil Law. Laws proposed by a magistrate of the senate, and adopted by the whole people in comitia centuriata. See "Populiscitum"; "Lex." In En

To wage law. See Wager of law .

Same as Laireswite.

Laws, plural of Lex.

SCBRIPTA. Lat. In English law. Written laws; statute laws, or acts of parliament which are originally reduced into writing before they wre enacted, or receive any binding power. Ha

The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign systems

Lat. The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign systems. Leges Anglis sunt tripartite,—jus commune, consuetudines, ac decreta comitiorum. The laws o

The laws of England are threefold,—common law, customs, and decrees of parliament.

The laws of England are threefold, the common law, the customs and the resolutions of parliament.

A class name for the codes of medlteval European law. For a list, see Jenks, 2 Sel. Essays in Anglo- Amer. Leg. Hist. 154.

A name used for a legal treatise written from 1130 to 1135, which presents the law in force toward the end of Henry I. Its authority is said to be undeserved. 2 Sel. Essays in Angl

The accepted name for the common law from an early time; Green, in 9 L. Q. R. 153; since the latter half of the 12th century at least; Pollock, First Book of Jurispr. 249.

The practice of fixing and refixing [making and remaking] the laws is a most dangerous one. 4 Coke, pref.

The custom of making and repealing laws is very dangerous. See 1 Bl. Comm. 89.

A book written between 1114 and 1118 containing Anglo-Saxon and Norman law. It is said to be an invaluable source of knowledge of the period preceding the full development of the N

Human laws are born, live, and die. 7 Coke, 25; 2 Atk. 674; 11 C. B. 767; 1 Bl. Comm. 89.

VIvunt, et moriuntur. Human laws are bom, live, and die. 7 Coke, 25; 2 Atk. 674; 11 C. B. 767; 1 Bl. Comm. 89. LEGES NATURAE PERFECTISSIMAE sunt et immutabiles; human! vero juris c

Human laws are born, live and die.

Leges hnmanæ nascuntur, vivunt, morinntur. The laws of nature are most perfect and immutable; but the condition of human law is an unending succession, and there is nothing in it w

The laws of nature are the most perfect and immutable, but the condition of human law always fails endlessly and there is nothing in it which can stand permanently.

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.

Unwritten laws.

Laws are imposed not upon words but upon things.

More recent laws repeal prior conflicting ones. See 12 Allen (Mass.), 434.

Later laws abrogate prior laws that are contrary to them. Broom, Max. 27, 29

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,

Written laws, i. e., statutes.

Laws under a weightier law. Hale, Com. Law, 46, 44.

Laws subject to a higher law.

Laws should bind the proposers of them. Pleta, bk. 1, c 17, § 11. LEGES TABELLARIAE (Lat.) Roman laws regulating the mode of voting by ballot (tabella). 1 Kent, Comm. 232, note.

Laws should bind their own maker. Flete, llb. 1, c. 17, § 1L

Laws of the ballot, i. e.y election laws.

NON DORMIENtibus subveniunt. The laws aid the vigilant, not the negligent. Fanning; Dunham; 5 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 122, 145; Toole; Cook; 16 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 142, 144. LEGIBUS SOLUTU

The laws aid the vigilant, not those who slumber. See 16 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 142.

L In the Roman law. Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. Applied to the emperor.

(Civil Law) Immune from the laws, i. e., the emperor.

lege naturae utendum est. When laws Imposed by the state fail, we must act by the law of nature. 2 Rolle, 298. ' LEGIS CONSTRUCTIO NON FACIT IN- Juriam. The construction of law doe

When artificial laws fail, the law of nature must be invoked.

Subjected to a course of the law. Cowell. LEGIS ACTl Oe Actio represented a right of the plaintiff not only as against the defendant, but also against the magistrate — a light to h

The construction of the law does not work injury.

The custom of making and repealing the law is a very dangerous one.

The interpretation of the law obtains the force of law.

^ To make a law or laws; to exercise sovereignty, q. v. Legislation. The enactment of a law or laws. General legislation. Legislation for all the people of a State or union of Stat

initiatives are plainly 'legislation' within the meaning of these Regulations. Had the measures involved in these cases been passed by the people of Washington and Arkansas they wo

The mere enactment of legislation which authorizes condemnation of property cannot be a taking. Such legislation may be repealed or modified, or appropriations may fail.

Legislation is presumptively territorial and confined to limits over which the law-making power has jurisdiction.

Making or giving laws; pertaining to the function of law-making or to the process of enactment of laws. See Evansville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. E. 267, 4 L. R. A. 93. —Legisla

One which predetermines what the law shall be for the regulation of future cases falling within its provisions. See 101 Cal. 15, 40 Am. St. Rep. 17, 35 Pac. 353.

The oft-repeated statement that administrative construction receives legislative approval by reenactment of a statutory provision, without material change, covers the situation whe

The term “legislative branch” includes— (A) the Architect of the Capitol; (B) the Botanic Gardens; (C) the Congressional Budget Office; (D) the Government Accountability Office; (E

If the legislature shares the now prevailing belief as to what is public policy, and finds that a particular instrument of trade war is being used against that policy in certain ca

The legislature is not debarred from classifying according to general considerations and with regard to prevailing conditions; otherwise, there could be no legislative power to cla

If there could be any doubt as to the meaning of the statute, it disappears in the light of congressional construction which may properly be examined as an aid in its interpretatio

The legislative contempt power should be limited to 'the least possible power adequate to the end proposed

a bank, in which stock is held by individuals, is a private corporation, and its charter is a legislative contract, which cannot be changed without its consent

the legislature of a state may, in the absence of special restrictions in its Constitution, make a valid contract with a corporation in respect to taxation, and that such contract

The Court of Claims is a legislative, not a constitutional court. Its judicial power is derived not from the Judiciary Article of the Constitution, article 3, but from the Congress

Those created by Congress in the exertion of other powers are called legislative courts. Their functions always are directed to the execution of one or more of such powers, and are

The courts are the legislative courts of the Territory, created in virtue of the clause which authorizes Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territori

For purposes of this subsection, the term “legislative day” means, with respect to statements transmitted to the Senate, any calendar day on which the Senate is in session, and wit

The term “legislative days” means only days on which either House of Congress is in session. / The term “legislative days” means any calendar day on which either House of Congress

By dedicating the lands thus acquired to a particular public use, Congress declared a public policy, but did not purport to deprive itself of the power to change that policy by dev

That department ofgovernment whose appropriate function is the making or enactment of laws, as distinguished from the judicial department, which interprets and applies the laws, an

where a legislature enacts a specific rule for fixing a rate of taxation, by which rule the rate is mathematically deduced from facts and events occurring within the year and creat

The expectations of those who sought the enactment of legislation may not be used for the purpose of affixing to legislation when enacted a meaning which it does not express.

The essentials of the legislative function are the determination of the legislative policy and its formulation as a rule of conduct. Those essentials are preserved when Congress sp

Whether and to what extent deductions shall be allowed depends upon legislative grace; and only as there is clear provision therefor can any particular deduction be allowed.

Grants made by a Legislature are not warranties; and the rule universally applied in determining their effect is, that if the thing granted was not in the grantor at the time of th

If the legislature possessed the authority to make such a grant and confirmation, it is very clear to our minds that it vested an indefeasible and irrevocable title. We have no kno

It is the purpose and office of the doctrine of legislative immunity, having its roots as it does in the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution, that legislators engaged 'in t

As used in this section, the term “legislative information” means information, prepared within the legislative branch, consisting of the text of publicly available bills, amendment

We are not required to be sure of the precise reasons for [the legislature's] exercise [of power], or be convinced of the wisdom of its exercise. ... the constitutional validity of

A member of the legislative body or department of a state'or municipal corporation. See Prosecuting Attorney v. Judge of Recorder's Court, 69 Mich. 529, 26 N. W. 694.

Legislative power, as distinguished from executive power, is the authority to make laws, but not to enforce them or appoint the agents charged with the duty of such enforcement. Th

It is the duty and function of the legislature to discern and correct evils, and by evils we do not mean some definite injury, but obstacles to a greater public welfare.

That a legislative presumption of one fact from evidence of another may not constitute a denial of due process of law or a denial of the equal protection of the law it is only esse

A member of the general assembly is, undoubtedly, privileged from arrest, summons, citation, or other civil process, during his attendance on the public business confided to him. A

the necessity and expediency of the taking of property for public use 'are legislative questions, no matter who may be charged with their decision, and a hearing thereon is not ess

ratification by the legislature is in all respects equivalent to original authority, and cures all defects of power, if such defects existed, and all irregularities in its executio

the legislative approval of existing regulations by reenactment of the statutory provision to which they appertain gives such regulations the force of law

In establishing a rule of general application, it is not a condition of its validity that there be adduced evidence of its appropriateness in respect to every railroad to which it

One who makes lawis; a member of the legislature (g, v.).

RE. bus et non verbis, legem imponere. The voice of legislators is a living voice, to impose laws on things, and not on words. 10 Coke, 101.

That of the legislators is the living voice to impose law upon things and not upon words.

the people") is so outrageously wrong, so utterly devoid of textual or historic support, so flatly in contradiction of prior Supreme Court cases, so obviously the willful product o

the State's lawmaking body of elected representatives, acting independently of restrictions imposed by state law.

IN execution oi his office, either to fly or retreat. 6 Coke, 68.

A servant of the law is not bound, in the execution of his office, either to flee or to retreat.

The minister of the law is bound, in the execution of his office, not to fly nor to retreat Branch, Prine,

One learned in the law.

(Scotch) The share of the children in the father’s movable property.

The state Of being born in wedlock; that is, in a lawful manner.

Lawful power. Same as Liege poustie.

being exactly as proposed: neither spurious nor false," which does not describe respondents' claims in this case.