lēx lēgis, f
3 LEG-,
a formal proposition for a law, motion, bill
(offered by a magistrate to the people): legem ferre: antiquare: rogare: legem
promulgavit pertulitque, ut, etc., L.: a dictatore
comitiis lata: scivit legem de publicanis: populus
R. iussit legem de civitate tribuendā: repudiare.—
A bill adopted by the people in the comitia, enactment, law
: civitati legem constituere: leges ac iura labefactare:
legem condere, L.: decem tabularum
leges,
the ten
(afterwards twelve)
tables, composed by the decemvirs
, L.: fraudem legi facere,
evade the law
, L.: omnia lege facta,
legally
: ut legibus fieret iudicium,
according to law
, N.: lictorem lege agere iubere,
do his office
, L.: Lege agito,
bring an action
, T.—
A law, precept, regulation, principle, rule, mode, manner
: meā lege utar, T.: haec lex in amicitiā sanciatur: veri rectique: prima historiae,
ne quid falsi dicere audeat: lex amicitiae, ut idem amici semper velint: leges
Epicuri: ultra Legem tendere opus, H.: lex
et ratio loquendi, Iu.: equi sine lege
ruunt,
in disorder
, O.: hanc dederat Proserpina legem,
had prescribed this order
, V.—
A contract, agreement, covenant
: in mancipi lege,
a contract of sale
: Manilianas venalium vendendorum leges ediscere,
legal forms.—A condition, stipulation
: hac lege tibi adstringo meam fidem,
T.: legibus dictis, L.: fata Quiritibus Hac lege dico, ne, etc., H.: leges captis inponere,
conditions
, O.: sed vos saevas imponite leges,
Iu.: pax data Philippo in has leges est,
terms
, L.: se sub leges pacis iniquae
Tradere, V.