If now the Hebrew had followed the lex talionis, after the manner of his race in ancient times, it might have fared badly with poor Carl.

[Lat.], lex scripta [Lat.], act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation; form, formula, formulary; technicality; canon law; norm. order &c (command) 741.

The most fundamental of these laws is the lex continui.

Cui leges imponit, praescribit, jubet, vetat quod videtur.

"No commentator," says Judge Hall, in his Letters from the West, "has taken any notice of Linch's Law, which was once the lex loci of the frontiers.

[Footnote 72: The lex sacrata, which declared their persons inviolate.

The laws which govern the institution of Freemasonry are of two kinds, unwritten and written, and may in a manner be compared with the "lex non scripta," or common law, and the "lex seripta," or statute law of English and American jurists.

I will surcease, and conclude with [6807]Erasmus of such controversies: Pugnet qui volet, ego censeo leges majorum reverenter suscipiendas, et religiose observandas, velut a Deo profectas; nec esse tutum, nec esse pium, de potestate publica sinistram concipere aut serere suspicionem.

The lex talion is frequently enforced in North Africa.

En leges ipsi Veneri Martique timendas. 662. 54 Pauperes non peccant, quum extrema necessitate coacti rem alienam capiunt.

Solonis lex apud.

[170] Codex, iv, 12, 2, rescript of Diocletian: ob maritorum culpam uxores inquietari leges vetant.

The socii and participes seem to be distinguished by Cicero in his Verrine orations (ii. 1. 55), where he quotes an addition made by Verres illegally as praetor to a lex censoria: "qui de censoribus redemerit, eum socium ne admittito neve partem dato."