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3 LEG-, a formal proposition for a law, motion, bill (offered by a magistrate to the people): legem ferre: antiquare: rogare: legem promulgavit pertulitque, ut, etc., L.: a dictatore comitiis lata: scivit legem de publicanis: populusR.iussit legem de civitate tribuendā: repudiare.— A bill adopted by the people in the comitia, enactment, law : civitati legem constituere: leges ac iura labefactare: legem condere, L.: decem tabularum leges, the ten (afterwards twelve) tables, composed by the decemvirs , L.: fraudem legi facere, evade the law , L.: omnia lege facta, legally : ut legibus fieret iudicium, according to law , N.: lictorem lege agere iubere, do his office , L.: Lege agito, bring an action , T.— A law, precept, regulation, principle, rule, mode, manner : meā lege utar, T.: haec lex in amicitiā sanciatur: veri rectique: prima historiae, ne quid falsi dicere audeat: lex amicitiae, ut idem amici semper velint: leges Epicuri: ultra Legem tendere opus, H.: lex et ratio loquendi, Iu.: equi sine lege ruunt, in disorder , O.: hanc dederat Proserpina legem, had prescribed this order , V.— A contract, agreement, covenant : in mancipi lege, a contract of sale : Manilianas venalium vendendorum leges ediscere, legal forms.—A condition, stipulation : hac lege tibi adstringo meam fidem, T.: legibus dictis, L.: fata Quiritibus Hac lege dico, ne, etc., H.: leges captis inponere, conditions , O.: sed vos saevas imponite leges, Iu.: pax data Philippo in has leges est, terms , L.: se sub leges pacis iniquae Tradere, V.