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lex scripta
[ leks skrip-tuh ]
noun
- written law; statute law.
lex scripta
noun
- the written law; statute law
Word History and Origins
Origin of lex scripta1
Word History and Origins
Origin of lex scripta1
Example Sentences
Arguments drawn from impolicy or inconvenience, says Judge Story, ought here to be of no weight, as "the only sound principle is to declare ita lex scripta est, to follow and to obey."
All, that can be said about it, lies in a filbert shell, ita lex scripta est, ita rerum natura.
From this time dates the division of old France into the Pays de droit �crit, in which Roman law, under the form in which it was codified by Justinian, was received as the ordinary law; and the Pays de coutume, The customs. where it played only a secondary part, being generally valid only as ratio scripta and not as lex scripta.
Blackstone divides the civil law of England into lex scripta or statute law, and lex non scripta or common law.
We are to each other, dearest, Ita lex scripta.”
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