Leges (plural of Latin
lex: ''law'') may refer to:
Literature
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''Laws'' (dialogue) Plato's last and longest dialogue
Ancient Roman law
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Leges regiae, early Roman laws introduced by the Kings of Rome
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Lex Julia
A ''lex Julia'' (plural: ''leges Juliae'') was an ancient Roman law that was introduced by any member of the gens Julia. Most often, "Julian laws", ''lex Julia'' or ''leges Juliae'' refer to moral legislation introduced by Augustus in 23 BC, ...
(Leges Juliae), ancient Roman laws, introduced by any member of the Julian family
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Leges Clodiae
Publius Clodius Pulcher ( – 18 January 52 BC) was a Roman politician and demagogue. A noted opponent of Cicero, he was responsible during his plebeian tribunate in 58 BC for a massive expansion of the Roman grain dole as well as Ci ...
, series of laws passed by the Plebeian Council of the Roman Republic
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Leges provinciae, 146 BC laws concerning the regulation and administration of Roman provinces
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Lex Antonia (Leges Antoniae), law established in ancient Rome in 44 BC
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Lex Licinia Sextia
The Licinio-Sextian rogations were a series of laws proposed by Tribune of the Plebs, tribunes of the plebs, Gaius Licinius Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus, enacted around 367 BC. Livy calls them ''rogatio'' – though he does refer to th ...
(Leges Liciniae Sextiae), Roman law which restored the consulship in 367 BCE
Laws in other governments
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Leges Henrici Primi
The ''Leges Henrici Primi'' or ''Laws of Henry I'' is a legal treatise, written in about 1115, that records the legal customs of medieval England in the reign of King Henry I of England. Although it is not an official document, it was written ...
, legal treatise, written circa 1115, on legal customs of medieval England
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Leges palatinae, laws governing the functioning of the royal court of the Kingdom of Majorca
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Leges Edwardi Confessoris, early twelfth-century English collection of 39 laws
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Leges Genuciae
''Leges Genuciae'' (also ''Lex Genucia'' or ''Lex Genucia de feneratione'') were laws passed in 342 BC by Tribune of the Plebs Lucius Genucius Aventinensis.
These laws covered several topics: they banned lending that carried interest, which soon ...
, laws proposed in 342 BCE by plebeian consul Lucius Genucius
* Leges barbarorum; see
Early Germanic law
Germanic law is a scholarly term used to describe a series of commonalities between the various law codes (the ''Leges Barbarorum'', 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the early Germanic peoples. These were compared with statements i ...
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Sacrae Disciplinae Leges, 1983 apostolic constitution by Pope John Paul II
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Leges inter Brettos et Scottos, legal codification under David I of Scotland
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Welsh law (Leges Walliae)
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Edictum Rothari (Leges Langobardorum) 643 CE compilation of Lombard law
Phrases
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Inter arma enim silent leges ("In times of war, the law falls silent"), phrase attributed to Cicero
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Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of the series
* Leges sine Moribus vanae, motto of
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
Other uses
* , a Roman Catholic titular bishopric in modern Algeria; see
Numidia#Episcopal sees
See also
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Lex (disambiguation)
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Legibus (disambiguation)
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