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Lex non Scripta

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The common law, as distinguished from the statute or written law. Common law does not derive its force from being recorded, and though its several provisions have been compiled and printed, the compilations are not statutes, but simply remembrancers.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Levellers (in Irish History)
Lever de Rideau
Leveret
Leviathan
Levites
Levitical
Lewd (Anglo-Saxon, leóde)
Lewis (Monk)
Lewis Baboon
Lewkner’s Lane
Lex non Scripta
Lex Talionis (Latin)
Leyden Jar or Phial
Leze Majesty
Li-Flambe
Lia-fail (of Ireland)
Liakura
Liar (The)
Libel
Liber Albus
Liber Niger or The Black Book of the Exchequer