La ley favour la vie d'un home. The law favors a man's life. Year B. Hen. VI. 51.
La ley favour l'inheritance d'un home. The law favors a man's inheritance. Year B. Hen. VI. 51. La ley voit plus tort suffer un mischiefe que un inconvenience. The law will sooner suffer a mis chief than an inconvenience. Littleton § 231.
Late culpa dole cequiparatur. Gross negligence is equal to fraud.
Law construeth every act to be lawful when it standeth indifferent whether it be lawful or not. Wing. Max. 194.
Law construethlhings according to common possi bility or intendment. Wing. Max. 189. • Law construeth things to the best. Wing. Max. 193. Law construeth things with equity and modera tion. Wing. Max. 183; Finch, Law 74.
Law disfavoreth impossibilities. Wing. Max. 165. Law disfavoreth improbabilities. Wing. Max. 161. Law favoreth charity. Wing. Max. 135.
Law favoreth common, right. Wing. Max. 144. Law favoreth diligence, and therefore hateth folly and negligence. Wing. Max. 172; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 70: Law favoreth honor and order. Wing. Max. 199. Law favoreth justice and right. Wing. Max. 141. Law favoreth life, liberty, and dower. 4 Bacon, Works 345.
Law favoreth mutual recompense. Wing. Max. 100 ; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 42.
Law favoreth possession where the right is equal. Wing. Max. 98 ; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 36.
Law favoreth public commerce. Wing. Max. 198. Law favoreth public quiet. Wing. Max. 200; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3. n. 54.
Law favoreth speeding of men's causes. Wing. Max. 175.
Law favoreth things for the commonwealth. Wing. Max. 197; Finch, Law, b. 1, C. 3, n. 53.
Law favoreth truth, faith, and certainty. Wing. Max. 154.
Law hateth delays. Wing. Max. 176; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 7L Law hateth new inventions and innovations. Wing. Max. 204.
Law hateth wrong. Wing. Max. 146; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 62.
Law of itself prejudiceth no man. Wing. Max. 148 ; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 63.
Law respecteth matter of substance more than matter of circumstance. Wing. Max. 101; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 39.
Law respecteth possibility of things. Wing. Max. 140 ; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 40.
Law respecteth the bonds of nature. Wing. Max. 78; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 29.
Lawful things are well mixed, unless a form of law oppose. Bacon, Max. Reg. 23. (The law giveth that favor to lawful acts, that although they be exe cuted by several authorities, yet the whole act is good. Ibid.) Le contrat fait la loi. The contract makes the law.
Le ley de Dieu et ley de terre cant tout sun, et l'un et l'autre pref erre et favour le common et pub lique bien del tcrre. The law of God and the law of the land are all one ; and both preserve and fa vor the common and public good of the land. Keiiw. 191.
Le ley est le plus haut inheritance que le roy ad, car par le ley, it mesme et touts sea sujets sent rules, et si be ley ne fuit, nut roy ne nul inheritance serra. The law is the highest inheritance that the king possesses ; for by the law both he and all his subjects are ruled ; and if there were no law, there would be neither king nor inheritance.
Le salut du people est la supreme loi. The safety of the people is the highest law. Montes. Esp. Lois 1. xxvii. ch. 23 ; Broom, Max. 2, n.
Legatos violare contra jus gentium est. It is con trary to the law of nations to do violence to am bassadors. Branch, Princ.
Legatum morte testatoris tantum confirmatur, cut donatio inter vivos tradition sole. A legacy is confirmed by the death of the testator, in the same manner as a gift from a living person is by deliv ery alone. Dyer 143.
Legatos regis vice fungitur a quo destinatur, it honorandus est siout ille cujus vicem gerit. An am bassador fills the place of the king by whom he is sent, and is to be honored as he is whose place he fills. 12 Co. 17.
Legem enim contractus dat. The contract makes the law.
Legem term amittentes perpetuam infatniee no tam inde merito incurrunt. Those who do not pre serve the law of the land, then justly incur the in effaceable brand of infamy. 3 Inst. 221.