_legem, rogationem_[1] _promulgare_ (Liv. 33. 46)—to bring a bill
before the notice of the people.
_legem ferre_ or simply _ferre ad populum, ut..._—to propose a law in
the popular assembly.
_legem suadere_ (opp. _dissuadere_)—to support a bill (before the
people).
_pro lege dicere_—to support a bill (before the people).
_legem rogare_ or _rogare populum_ (cf. sect. XVI. 4, note _Aulus
Gellius..._)—to formally propose a law to the people.
_legem perferre_ (Liv. 33. 46)—to carry a law (said of the magistrate).
_lex perfertur_—a law is adopted.
_legem antiquare_[2] (opp. _accipere, iubere_)—to reject a bill.
_legem sciscere_ (Planc. 14. 35)—to vote for a law.
_legem iubere_—to ratify a law (used of the people).
_legem sancire_—to let a bill become law (of the people and senate).
_Solo lege sanxit, ut_ or _ne_—Solo ordained by law that...
_Solonis legibus sanctum erat, ut_ or _ne_—the laws of Solon ordained
that...
_legem abrogare_[3] (Att. 3. 23. 2)—to replace an old law by a new.
_legem tollere_ (Leg. 2. 12. 31)—to abolish a law.
_legi intercedere_—to protest against a law (used of the veto,
_intercessio_, of plebeian tribunes).
_legem proponere in publicum_—to bring a law before the notice of the
people.
_edictum proponere_ (Att. 2. 21. 4)—to publish, post up an edict.
_legem in aes incīdere_—to engrave a law upon a brazen tablet.
_lex rata est_ (opp. _irrita_)—a law is valid.
_legem ratam esse iubere_—to declare a law valid.
_a lege discedere_—to transgress a law.
_salvis legibus_ (_vid._ sect. X. 7, note _Notice..._)—without
breaking the law.
_lex_[4] _iubet, vetat (dilucide, planissime)_—the law orders, forbids
(expressly, distinctly).
_in lege scriptum est_, or simply _est_—the law says...
_sententia_ or _voluntas legis_—the spirit of the law.
_leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere_ (not _dare_)—to make
laws (of a legislator).
_legum scriptor, conditor, inventor_—a legislator.
_qui leges scribit_ (not _legum lator_)[5]—a legislator.
_in legem iurare_ (Sest. 16. 37)—to swear obedience to a law.
_lege teneri_—to be bound by a law.
_legibus solvere_—to free from legal obligations.
_ea lege, ut_—on condition of...
_aliquid contra legem est_—a thing is illegal.
_acta rescindere, dissolvere_ (Phil. 13. 3. 5)—to declare a
magistrate's decisions null and void.
_in album referre_ (De Or. 2. 12. 52)—to record in the official
tablets (_Annales maximi_).
[1] A _rogatio_ had to be posted up in some public place for _trinum
nundinum (tempus)_ (Phil. 5. 3. 8), i.e. for seventeen days, _nundinae
(novem, dies)_ being a holiday, fair, held every ninth day.
[2] On the voting-tablets (_tabellae_) used in the _comitia_ was
written either A (_antiquo_) to reject the bill, V * R (_uti rogas_)
to pass it; in judicial questions A (_absolvo_), C (_condemno_), N * L
(_non liquet_).
[3] _legi_ or _de lege derogare_ = to reject a clause in it; _legem
abrogare_, to nullify a law by passing another which contradicts it;
_multam, poenam inrogare alicui_, to inflict a fine on some one with
the approval of the people; _pecuniam erogare (ex aerario in
classem)_, to draw money from the treasury and distribute it according
to the wishes of the people.
[4] _lex_ is often personified in this way.
[5] _legis lator_ = the man who proposes a law.