Legal Latin Phrases
Starting with phrase number 401

  1. Lex artis - Art Law (Legal term which refers to knowledge of the profession is exercised)
  2. Lex domicilii - Home Law (Legal term)
  3. Lex dubia, Lex nulla - Doubtful law, Null law(Legal term)
  4. Lex duodecim tabularum - Act of the twelve tables (Legal term - code which was enacted as a result of the quarrels between patricians and plebeians)
  5. Lex fori - Law Forum (Legal term)
  6. Lex iniusta non est lex - An unjust law is not law (Legal term)
  7. Lex iulia de repetundis - Anti-Corruption Act (Legal term)
  8. Lex loci celebrationis - Law of the venue where the act was celebrated (Legal term - Defers the authority to the local rules where the act, such as marriage, was performed )
  9. Lex loci contractus - The law of the place of the contract (Legal term - Defers the authority to the local rules where the contract was signed)
  10. Lex loci delicti commissi - The law of the place where the damage occurred (Legal term - the punishment should be according to the law of the land)
  11. Lex loci executionis - The law of the place where the obligation is executed (Legal term)
  12. Lex loci rei sitae - The law of the place where the assets are located (Legal term)
  13. Lex non scripta - Unwritten law (Legal term - Common law, which everyone knows, but it is not written)
  14. Lex posterior derogat priori - Later law repeals (cancels) the previous (legal term)
  15. Lex posterior generalis non derogat priori speciali - Later general legislation does not overrule earlier special legislation (Legal term)
  16. Lex Scripta, Lex Tradita - The law is written, the law is given (Legal term)
  17. Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod iure liceo - Freedom is the power to do what the law allows (Legal term)
  18. Litis contestatio - Demand answered (Legal term )
  19. Litis denuntiatio - Demand Served (Legal term )
  20. Locus regit actum - The venue, the act governing (Legal term)
  21. Longa manu - With short hand (Legal term - With warrant - Ownership by contract - Compare with longa manu)
  22. Lucrum cessans - Profit ceased (Legal term - Llost of the opportunity to make a profit)
  23. Maior singulis, universis minor - Greater than One, Less than All (Legal term - Aristotle’s phrase that refers to the person who is the ruler )
  24. Maiores aliud ius gentium, aliud ius civile esse voluerunt - The elders wanted one thing to be right of nations, the other thing to be the civil law (Legal term)
  25. Mala praxis - Malpractice (Legal term - when a professional makes an error. For example: take a surgeon on trial for mala praxis)

Total: 647
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