Lex est norma recti. Law is s rule of right.
Lex est ratio summa, quce jubet quce aunt utina et necessaria, et contraria prohibet. Law is the perfection of reason, which commands what is use ful and necessary, and forbids the contrary. Co. Litt. 319 b.
Lex est sanctio sancta, jubens honesta, et prohi bens contraria. Law is a sacred sanction, com manding what is right and prohlhiting the contrary. 2 Inet. 587; 1 Sharsw. Bla. Corn. 44, n.
Lex est tutissima cassis; sub clypeo lcgis nemo decipitur. Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived. 2 Inst. 56.
Lex favet doti. The law favors dower. 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 105.
Lex fingit ubi subsistit cequitas. Lsw creates a fiction where equity exists. Branch, Princ.
Lex intendit vicinum vicini facts scire. The law presumes that one neighbor knows the actions of another. Co. Litt. 78 b. See JURY.
Lex necessitatis est lex tenvporis, 1. e. instantis. The law of necessity is the law of time, that is, dais present. Hob. 159.
Lex neminem cog it ad vana seu inutilia pera genda. The law forces no one to do vain or useless things. Wing. Max. 600; Broom, Max. 252; 3 Sharsw. Bla. Com. 144 ; 2 Bingh. N. c. 121 ; 13 East 420; 15 Pick. (Mass.) 190 ; 7 Cush. (Mass.) 393 ; 14 Gray (Msse.) 78 ; 7 Pa. 206 ; 3 Johns. (N. Y.) 598. See IMPOSSIBILITY.
Lex neminem cogit ostendere quod nescire pro sumitur. The law forces no one to make known what he Ia presumed not to know. Lofft 569.
Lex nemini fadit injuriam. The law does wrong to no one. Branch, Princ.; 66 Pa. 157.
Lea nemini operatur iniquum, nemini facet injuriam. The law never works an injury, or does a wrong. Jenk. Cent. 22.
Lex nil facet frustra, nil jubet frustra. The law does nothing and commands nothing in vain. Broom, Max. 252 ; 3 Bulstr. 279 ; Jenk. Cent. 17. Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. The law requires nothing impossible. Broom, Max. 242 ; Co. Litt. 231 b; Hob. 96 ; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 851; 17 N. IL 411. Lex non curet de minimis. The law does not re gard small matters. Hob. 88.
Lex non deficit in justitia exhibenda. The law
does not fail in showing justice. Jenk. Cent. 31. Lex non exacte deficit, sed arbitrio boni viri per mittit. The law does not define exactly, but trusts In the judgment of a good man.
Lex non favet votis dehcatorum. The law favors not the wishes of the dainty. 9 Co. 58 a; Broom, Max. 379.
Lex non intendit aliquid impossibile. The law intends not anything impossible. 12 Co. 89 a.
Lex non patitur fractions et divisiones statuto rum. The law suffers no fractions and divisions of eetstes. 1 Co. 87 ; Branch, Pique.
Lex non prcecipit inutiUa, quia inutibis labon stultus. The law commands not useless things, be cause useless labor is foolish. Co. JAM 197 ; 6 Co. 89 a ; 112 Mass. 400.
Lex non requirit verificari quod apparet curio. The law does not require that to be proved which is apparent to the court. 9 Co. 64. See JUDICIAL NOTICE.
Lex plus laudatur quando ratione probatur. The law is the more praised when it is consonant with reason. 3 Term 146; 7 id. 252 ; 7 A. & E. 657 ; Broom, Max. 159.
Lex posterior derogat priori. A prior statute ehall give place to a later. Mack. Civ. Law, 6; Broom, Max. 27, 28.
Lex prospicit, non respicit. The law looks for ward, not backward. Jenk. Cent. 284.
Lex punit mendaciam. The law punishes f alee hood. Jenk. Cent. 15.
Lea rejicit superflua, pugnantia, incongrua. The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incon gruous things. Jenk. Cent. 133, 140, 176.
Lex reprobat moram. The law disapproves of delay.
Lex respicit cequitatem. Law regards equity. See 14 Q. B. 604, 611, 612 ; Broom, Max. 151.
Lex semper dabit rensedium. The law will always give a remedy. Bac. Abr. Actions in general (B) ; Branch, Princ.; Broom, Max. 192; 12 A. & E. 266; 7 Q. B. 451 ; 5 Rawie (Pa.) 89.
Lex semper intendit quad convent rations. The law always intends what is agreeable to reason. Co. Litt. 78.
Lex spectat naturce ordinem. The law regards the order of nature. Co. Litt. 197 ; Broom, Max. 252. Lex succurrit ignoranti. The law succors the ig norant. Jenk. Cent. 15.