Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Lex aliquando sequitur æquitatem—Law is sometimes according to equity. L.

Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum—The law will sooner tolerate a private loss than a public evil. Coke.

Lex neminem cogit ad impossibilia—The law compels no one to do what is impossible. L.

Lex non scripta—The common law. 45

Lex prospicit non respicit—The law is prospective, not retrospective. L.

Lex scripta—The statute law.

Lex talionis—The law of retaliation.

Lex terræ—The law of the land.

Lex universa est quæ jubet nasci et mori—There 50 is a universal law which commands that we shall be born and shall die. Pub. Syr.

Liars act like the salt-miners; they undermine the truth, but leave just so much standing as is necessary to support the edifice. Jean Paul.