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Lex Non Scripta

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

(Lat.) Law not written; unwritten law; a law originating plied to the common law of England, not in the literal sense of an unwritten or oral law, but in that of a law not derived from express legislative enactment. 1 Bl. Comm. 63, 64, 67.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The unwritten law.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The unwritten or common law, which included general and particular customs, and particular local laws. LEX PAPIA ET POPP^A. (B. O. 66.) The law which exempted from tutelage women who had three children. It Is usually considered with the Lex Julia de maritandia ordinihua as one law. See Leges Ju UiX:. LEX PATRiyE. National law. See MelU, Intern. Law 119.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

The unwritten or common law, which includes general and particular customs, and particular local laws.