Salique

or Salian law; the law of the Salians or Salian Franks — the oldest of the baruarian codes, having been framed, it is said, about 433. Lex scripta: written law; law deriving its force, not from usage, but from express legislative enactment. Lex semper dabit remediuin: the law will always give a remedy. Lex semper iutendlt qaod convenit ration!: the law always intends what is agreeable to reason. Lex spectat naturae ordinem: the law regards the order of nature. Lex succurrit: the law aids, or assists; — ignorant!: the law assists the ignorant; — minoribus: the Jaw aids minors. Lex talionis: the law of retaliation; a law which punishes an injury by a similar injury, an eye for an eye, etc. Lex uno ore omnes alloqnitnr: the law addresses all with one [the same] mouth or voice. Lex TVallensica: Welsh law; the law of Wales. Lex "Wisigothornm: the law of the Visigoths, or Western Goths who settled in Spain, — first reduced to writing in 466.

In old English law. The Roman civil law; an oath; the oath with compurgators, in the proceeding called making law. Lex apparens: apparent or manifest law, — a terra used to denote the trial by battel or duel, and the trial by ordeal. Lex eomitatus: the law of the county, or the law administered in the county court Lex non exacte deflnit sed arbitrio boni Tiri permittit: the law does not exactly define, but leaves to the discretion of a conscientious man or judge. Lex terrae: in general, the law of the land; due process of law; every lawful process and proceeding, in contradistinction to the mode of trial by jury.

In a stricter sense, trial by the ancient modes long known to the law of the land, as by the lex manifesta, the juramentwrn, duellum, or whatever it might be.

In the strictest sense, trial by oath; the privilege of making oath.

In the Roman law. A rule of action binding a whole community; a written law or statute; a law, especially, enacted or ordained by the whole body of the Roman people, on the recommendation of a senatorial magistrate; that system of law which descended from the