Leges Anglice sunt tripartites: jus commune, con suetudines, •ac decreta comitiorum. The laws of England are threefold: common law, customs, and decrees of parliament.
Leges figendi et refigendi consuetudo est pericule sissima. The custom of making and unmaking laws is a most dangerous one. 4 Co. pref.
Leges humane nascuntur, vivunt, et moriuntur. Human laws are born, live, and die. 7 Co. 25; 2 Atk. 674 ; 11 C. B. 767 ; 1 Bia. Com. 89.
Leges natures perfectissimes sunt et immutabiles; vero juria conditio semper in infinitum de currit, et nihil est in eo quod perpetuo stare possit. Leges humane nasountur, vivunt, moriuntur. The 'awe of nature are most perfect, and immutable; but the condition of human law is an unending suc cession, and there is nothing in. it which can con tinue perpetually. Human laws are born, live, and die. 7 Co. 25.
Leges non verbis sed rebus sunt imposites. Laws are imposed on things, not words. 10 Co. 101. Leges posteriores priores contraries abrogont. Subsequent laws repeal prior conflicting ones. Broom, Max. 27, 29 ; 2 Rolle 410 ; 11 Co. 626, 630; 12 Allen (Mass.) 434.
Leges suum ligent latorem. Laws should hind the proposers of them. Pieta, b. 1, c. 17, § 11. Leges vigilantibus, non dormientibus subveniunt. The laws aid the vigilant, not the negligent 16 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 142, 144.
Legibus susnptis desinentibus, lege naturee nien dum est. When laws Imposed by the state fail, we must act by the law of nature. 2 Rolle 298.
Legis constructio non facit injuriam. The con struction of law does no wrong. Co. Litt. 183. Legia figendi et refigendi consuetudo periculosis• sima est. The custom of fixing and refixing (mak ing and annulling) laws is most dangerous.
Legis interpretatio legis vim obtinet. The con struction of law obtains the force of law. Branch, Print.
Legis minister non tenetur, in execution offleii sui, fugere out retrocedere. The minister of the law is not bound, in the execution of his office, ei ther to fly or retreat. 6 Co. 68.
Legislatorum eat viva vox, rebus et non verbis legem imponere. The voice of legislators is a living voice, to impose laws on things and not on words.
10 Co. 101 ; Bart. Max. 211.
Legitime imperanti parere necease est. One who commands lawfully must be obeyed. Jenk. Cent. 120.
Les fictions naissent de la 10l, et non la loi des fictions. Fictions arise from the law, and not law from fictions.
Les lois ne se chargent de punir que les actions cxtcrieures. Laws do not undertake to punish other than outward actions. Montes. Esp. Lois, b. 12, c.
11 ; Broom, Max. 311.
Lex cequitate gaudet ; appetit perfectum; est norms recti. The law delights in equity : it covets perfection ; it is a rule of right. Jenk. Cent 36. Lex aliquando sequitur cequitatem. The law sometimes follows equity. 3 Wils. 119.
Lex Anglice est lex miserieordiee. The law of England is a law of mercy. 2 inst. 619.
Lex Anglia; non patitur absurdum. The law of England does not suffer an absurdity. 9 Co. 22. Lex Anglim nonquam sine parliamento mutari potest. The law of England cannot be changed but by parliament. 2 Inst. 218, 619.
Lex Angtice nunquam matrix sed waver patris conditionem imitari partum judicat. The law of England rules that the offspring ehall always follow the condition of the father, never that of the moth er. Co. Litt. 123 ; Bart. Max. 59.
Lex beneficialis ref consimili remedium prcestat. A beneficial law affords a remedy In a einallar case. 2 Inst. 689.
Lex cittius tolerare volt privatum damnum quam publicum malum. The law would rather tolerate a private lose than a public evil. Co. Litt. 152 b. Lex contra id quad prcesumit probationem non recipit. The law admits no proof against that which It presumes. Lofft 573.
Lex de futuro, Judea de prmterito. The law pro vides for the future, the judge for the past.
Lex defIcere non potest in justitia cxhibenda. The law ought not to fail in dispensing justice. Co. Litt. 197.
Lex dilationes semper exhorret. The law always abhors delay. 2 Inst. 240.
Lex est ab ceterno. The law Is from everlasting. Branch, Princ. .
Lex est dictamen rationis. Law is the dictate of reason. Jenk. Cent. 117.