Ley

L. Fr. Law; the law.

— Ley civile. In old English law. The civil or Roman law. Yearb. H. 8 Edw. III. 42. Otherwise termed "ley escnpte," the written law. Yearb. 10 Edw. III. 24.

— Ley gager. Law wager; wager of law ; the giving of gage or security by a defendant that he would make or perfect his law at a certain day. Litt. § 514; Co.. Litt. 294b, 295a.

Sp. In Spanish law. A law; the law; law in the abstract.
—Leyes de Estilo. In Spanish law. A collection of laws usually published as an appendix to the Fuero Real; treating of the mode of conducting suits, prosecuting them to judgment, and entering appeals. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 74.

lay, lee, leie, ly, I. fr. Law. La ley voet plus tost saffer un iiiisclieife que un inconvenience: the law will sooner suffer a mischief than an inconvenience. Le ley de l)ieu et le ley de terre sout toat un: the law of God and the law of the land are all ona Le ley favour' la vie d'un home: the law favors the life of a man. Le In old English law. Law, in the technical sense of an oath, or the oath with compurgators. Ley ciyile: the civil or Roman law. Ley gager: law-wager; wager of law; the giving of gage or security by a defendant that he would make or perfect his law at a certain day.

In Spanish law. A law; the law; law in the abstract.

Law. The old French equivalent of the English word law, and the Latin lex. Frequently used, like those words, in the technical sense of an oath with compurgators, or the mode of trial with compurgators. Thus the expression ley gager is equivalent to wager of law, or to make wager of law; in Latin, legem vadiare. So fesans de ley — doing of the law — correspolids to legem facere.

This word is old French, a corruption of lot, and signifies law; for example, Terms de la Ley, Terms of the Law.