Legal Latin Phrases
Starting with phrase number 406

406. Lex iniusta non est lex - An unjust law is not law (Legal term)
407. Lex iulia de repetundis - Anti-Corruption Act (Legal term)
408. 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 )
409. 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)
410. 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)
411. Lex loci executionis - The law of the place where the obligation is executed (Legal term)
412. Lex loci rei sitae - The law of the place where the assets are located (Legal term)
413. Lex non scripta - Unwritten law (Legal term - Common law, which everyone knows, but it is not written)
414. Lex posterior derogat priori - Later law repeals (cancels) the previous (legal term)
415. Lex posterior generalis non derogat priori speciali - Later general legislation does not overrule earlier special legislation (Legal term)
416. Lex Scripta, Lex Tradita - The law is written, the law is given (Legal term)
417. Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod iure liceo - Freedom is the power to do what the law allows (Legal term)
418. Litis contestatio - Demand answered (Legal term )
419. Litis denuntiatio - Demand Served (Legal term )
420. Locus regit actum - The venue, the act governing (Legal term)
421. Longa manu - With short hand (Legal term - With warrant - Ownership by contract - Compare with longa manu)
422. Lucrum cessans - Profit ceased (Legal term - Llost of the opportunity to make a profit)
423. Maior singulis, universis minor - Greater than One, Less than All (Legal term - Aristotle’s phrase that refers to the person who is the ruler )
424. 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)
425. Mala praxis - Malpractice (Legal term - when a professional makes an error. For example: take a surgeon on trial for mala praxis)
426. Mancipatio - Formal legal act (Legal term - referring to particular things that can emancipate (mancipi) There are those also unable emancipate (nec mancipi) )
427. Manumissio - Emancipation (Legal term - In Rome, act provision under which the slave is free and citizen)
428. Marito non licet nocere propriam uxorem - The husband does not have the right to harm his own wife (Legal term)
429. Maxima est capitis deminutio, cum aliquis simul et civitatem et libertatem amittit - The maximum decrease in rights occurs when a person loses freedom and citizenship (Legal term in ancient Rome)
430. Me lumen; vos umbra regit - Light is my guide, the shadow is yours (Legal term - Refers to the intentionality of certain facts, knowing good is light and dark is evil)

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