Lex terre
LEX TERRIE. The law of the land. The common law, or the due course of the common law; the general law of the land. Bract. fol. 17b. Equivalent to "due process of law." In the strictest sense, trial by oath; the privilege of making oath. Bracton uses the phrase to denote a freeman's privilege of being sworn in court as a juror or witness, which jurors convicted of perjury forfeited, (legem terse amittant.) Bract. fol. 292b. The phrase means "the procedure of the old popular law." Thayer, Evid. 201, quoting Brunner, Schw. 254, and Fortesq. de Laud. c. 26 (Selden's notes).[1]
Lex terræ: /léks téhriy/. The law of the land. The common law, or the due course of the common law; the general law of the land. Equivalent to "due process of law". In the strictest sense, trial by oath; the privilege of making oath.[2]
lex terrae (leks ter-ee). [Law Latin] See LAW OF THE LAND.[3]
References
- ↑ Black's Law Dictionary, 4th edition.
- ↑ Black's Law Dictionary, 5th & 6th editions.
- ↑ Black's Law Dictionary, 7th, 8th, & 9th editions.
