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The proof of a thing which one denies to be done by him, where another affirms it; defeating the assertion of his adversary, and showing it be against reason or probability. This w
Co. Litt. 107. The law cannot be defective in dispensing justice.
The law cannot be deficient in granting justice.
The law looks out for the future; the judge regards the past.
The law provides for the future, the judge for the past.
The proof of a thing which one denies to be done by him, where another aifirms it; defeating the assertion of his adversary, and showing it to be against reason or probability. Thi
The law always abhors delays.
The law of the domicile.
The law is from eyerlasting. Branch, Princ.
Law is from everlasting. A strong expression to denote the remote antiquity of the law. Jenk. Cent. p. 34, case 66.
Law is the dictate of reason. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 117.
Law is the dictate of reason.
Law la a rule of right.
- Lex est ratio snmma, quæ jubet quae sunt ntilia et necessaria, et contraria probibetdefined inBlack's (1910)
Law is the perfection of reason, which commands what is usefni and necessary, and forbids the contrary. Co. Litt. 319b; Id. 97b.
QUAE JUBET quae sunt utilia et necessaria, et contraria prohibet. Law is the perfection of reason, which commands what is useful and necessary, and forbids the contrary. Co. Litt.
- Lex est ratio summa quae jubet quae sunt utilia et necessaria, et contraria prohibetdefined inBallentine's (1916)
Law is the highest reason which orders those things which are useful and necessary, and prohibits the contrary.
JUBENS honesta, et prohibens contraria. Law is a sacred sanction, commanding what is right, and prohibiting the contrary. 2 Inst. 587. LEX EST TUTISSIMA CASSIS; SUB clypeo legis ne
Law is a sacred sanction, commanding what is right, and prohibiting the contrary. 2 Inst 587.
Law is a sacred sanction, ordering right things and prohibiting the contrary.
Law is the safest heimet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived. 2 Inst. 56.
Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived.
The law and custom (or usage) of parliament. The houses of parliament constitute a court not only of legislation. but also of justice, and have their own rules, by which the court
The law and custom of parliament The houses of parliament constitute a court not only of legislation, but also of justice, and have their own rules, by which the court itself and t
The law and custom of the realm; one of the names of the common law.,
The common law.
The law and custom of the realin. One of the names of the common law. Hale, Com. Law, 52.
- Lex Falcidiadefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Bouvier (1839)
See "Falcidian Law."
The law providing for the Infliction of capital punishment in certain cases. Inst. 4. 18, 10.
The law favors dower.
The law favors dower. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 105. LEX FINGIT UBI SUBSISTIT AEQUITas. Law feigns where equity subsists. 11 Coke, 90; Branch, Princ. LEX FORI (Lat. the law of the forum). T
The law of the fee.
The law fabricates where equity exists.
11 Coke, 90. The law makes use of a fiction where equity subsists.
Proceedings in courts of justice are usually determined by the lex fori of the place where the suit is pending, including the statutes of limitations, which are those of the countr
The law of the Franks ; promulgated by Theodoric I., son of Clovis I., at the same time with the law of the Alemanni and Bavarians. Spelman. This was a different collection from th
The law of the Franks; promulgated by Theodoric I., son of Clovis I., at the same time with the law of the Alemanni and Bavarians. Spelman. This was a different collection from the
The law of the Frisians, promulgated about the middle of the eighth century. Spelman. LEX FURIA (or FUSIA) CANINIA. In Roman law. The Furian Caninian law; a law passed in the consu
The law of the Frisians, promulgated about the middle of the eighth century. Spelman.
The Roman law limiting manumission by will.
The law limiting the liability of sponsors and fide-promissors to two years, and providing that as between several co-sponsors or co-flde-promissors, the debt should be, ipso jure,
A law enacting that a testator might not bequeath as a legacy more than one thousand asses.
A law Introducing the ballot in elections.
A law which entirely forbade the charging or taking of interest for the use of money among Roman citizens', but which was usually and easily evaded, as it did not declare an agreem
A law declaring interest Illegal. Inst. 3. 13.
The Ck)thic law, or law of the Goths. First promulgated in writing, A. D. 466. Spelman.
A law which assured to the tribal assembly its privilege of independent existence.
An important constitutional statute, taking its name from the consul who secured its enactment, to the effect that ali decrees passed in the meetings of the plebians should be laws
The law giving the plebeians a full share in the jus publicum and the jus sacrum. Sand. Just. Introd. § 9.
The Hostilian law, passed in the consulship of A. Hostilius, authorizing actions of theft to be brought in the name of captives or persons absent on the business of the state. Inst
A Roman law, which provided that a prosecution for theft might be carried on without the owner's intervention. 4 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 118.
The Imperial or Roman law. Quoted under this name, by Fleta, lib. 1, ¢. 38, § 15; Id. lib. 3, e. 10, § 3. er Lex intendit vicinum vicini facta scire. The law intends [or presumes]
The Imperial or Soman law. Quoted under this name by Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 15; Id. lib. 3, c. 10, i 3. LEX INTENDIT VICINUM VICINI FACta scire. The law presumes that one neighbor
The law presumes that a neighbor knows of the acts of his neighbor.
The law judges of things which must necessarily be done as if actually done. Branch, Princ.
The law judges of things necessarily to be done as if they were really done.
An ordeal
Several statutes bore this name, being distinguished by the addition of words descriptive of their subject matter. The "lex Julia de adultenis" related to marriage, dower, and kind
In Roman law. The Julian law of majesty; a law promulgated by Julius Caesar, and again published with additions by Augustus, comprehending all the laws before enacted to punish tra
The law conferring legal freedom on all such freedmen as were tuitione prwtoris. See Latini Juni- ANi. Lex Junia Velleja conferred the same right on posthumous children born in the
A law providing that descendants who became sui heredes of the testator otherwise than by birth, as by the death of their father, must be disinherited or Instituted heirs in the sa
The law of the country of one’s allegiance.
We have an analogous case in the thirty-fourth section of the Judiciary Act of the United States; in which it is enacted that the laws of the several states shall be rules of decis
The law of the place of the act.
The law of the place where the obligation was entered into. See 106 U. S. 124, 27 L. Ed. 104, 1 Sup. Ct. Rep. 102.
The law of the place of the contract. The local law which governs as to the nature, construction, and validity of a contract. See Pritchard v. Norton, 106 U. S. 124 , 1 Sup. Ct. 10
The validity of the contract is determined by the law of the place where it is entered into. Whether void or valid there, it is so everywhere.
The general principle adopted by civilized nations is, that the nature, validity and interpretation of contracts, are to be governed by the law of the country where the contracts a
The general principle in relation to contracts made in one place to be executed in another, is well settled. They are to be governed by the law of the place of performance—and if t
the settled principle that, in the absence of some overriding domestic policy translated into law, the right to recover for a tort depends upon and is measured by the law of the pl
The solution most commonly accepted as to torts in our municipal and in international law is to apply the law of the place where the acts giving rise to the liability occurred, the
The law of the place where an offense was committed.
the mere taking of foreign security does not alter the locality of the contract with regard to the legal interest. Taking foreign security does not necessarily draw after it the co
The law of the place where a thing is situated. "It is equally settled in the law of ali civilized countries that real property, as to its tenure, mode of enjoyment, transfer, and
It is one to be determined by the lex loci rei sitae. It is to be considered solely in the light of the statutes and adjudications of North Carolina. This court must hold and admin
- Lex Loci Solutionisdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)
The law of the place where payment or performance of a contract is, by its terms, to be made. LEX LONGOBARDORUM (Lat.) The name of an ancient code in force among the Lombards. It c
The law of the Lombards. The name of an ancient code of laws among that people, framed, probably, between the Ofth and eighth centuries, It continued in force after the incorporati
The law of the Lombards. The name of an ancient code of laws among that people, framed, probably, between the fifth and eighth centuries. It continued in force after the incorporat
Manifest or open law; the trial by duel or ordeal. The same as lex apparens (q. v.). LEX MERCATORIA (Lat.) That system of laws which is adopted by all commercial nations, and which
The law merchant. See Law merchant .
A law which reduced the official term of the censors at Rome from five years to a year and a half, and provided for the discharge of their peculiar functions by the consuls in the
Natural law. See Jus Naturale.
e., instantis. The law of necessity is the law of time, i. e., the present.
The law works injury to no one.
The law compels no one to do the impossible. See 52 C. C. A. (U. S.) 268, 57 L. R. A. 707, 114 Fed. 466.
The law requires of no man that which is unreasonable or impracticable. Lex neminem cogit ad vana seu impossibilia.
The law compels no one to do vain or useless things. Co. Litt 197b; Broom, Max. 252 ; 5 Coke, 21a.
The law compels no one to perform vain or useless acts. See 14 Gray (Mass.), 78.
The law compels no one to divulge what he is presumed to be ignorant of.
The law does wrong to no one. Branch, Princ.
NEmini facit injuriam. The law never works an injury, or does him a wrong. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 22.
The law works injustice to no one, injures no one.
NIL JUBETy^ frustra. The law does nothing and commands nothing in vain. 3 Bulst. 279; Jenk. Cent. Cas. 17.
The law does nothing in vain, commands nothing in vain.
The law com-, mands nothing vainly. 3 Bulst. 280.
The law does nothing in vain.
The law is not to be violated by the king. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 7.
Hob. 88. The law cares not about trifles.
The law requires nothing impossible. Co. Litt. 231b; Hob. 96; 1 Bouv. Inst, note 851.
The law does not regard small matters. Hob. 88. LEX NON DEFICIT IN JUSTITIA EXIbenda. The law does not fail in showing justice. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 31.
The law does not fail in showing justice. Jenk. Cant. p. 31, case 61.