La conscience est la plus changeante des regles. Conscience is the most changeable of rules.
Lata culpa dolo aequiparatur. Gross negligence1 is equal to fraud.
Le contrat fait la loi. The contract makes the law.
Legatos violare contra jus gentium est. It is contrary to the law of nations to violate the rights of ambassadors.
Legatum morte testatoris tantum /confirm/iatur, sicut donatio inter2 vivos traditione sol. A legacy3 is confirmed by the death of the testator, in the same manner as a gift from a living person is by delivery alone. Dyer, 143.
Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant. Subsequent laws repeal4 those before enacted5 to the contrary. 2 Rol. R. 410; 11 Co. 626, 630.
Leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt et moriuntur. Human laws are born, live and die. 7 co. 25.
Leges non verbis sed regus sunt impositae. Laws, not words, are imposed on things. 10 Co. 101.
Legibus sumptis disinentibus, lege naturae utendum est. When laws imposed by the state fail, we must act by the law of nature. 2 Roll. R. 298.
Legis constructio non facit injuriam. The construction of law does no wrong. Co. Litt. 183.
Legis figendi et refigendi consuetudo periculosissima est. The custom of fixing and refixing laws is most dangerous. 4 Co. Ad. Lect.
Legis interpretatio legis vim6 obtinet. Teh construction of law obtains the force of law.
Legislatorum est viva vox, rebus7 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.
Legis minister non tenetur, in executione officii sui fugere aut retrocedere. The minister of the law is not bound, in the execution of his office, neither to fly nor retreat. 6 Co. 68.