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Lex

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Lex, law. In the Roman Law it was a resolution adopted by the old Roman populus (Patricians and Plebeians) in the comitia, on the motion of a magistrate of senatorial rank, as a consul, a pr'tor, or a dictator.

The principal maxims under this head are as follows:-

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