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leges

[lee-jeez, le-ges]

noun

  1. plural of lex.



leges

/ ˈliːdʒiːz /

noun

  1. the plural of lex

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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If the Leges Henrici is common law, as Alito presents it, mixed in with common-law sources like Bracton, it's dishonest to say that common law has always criminalized abortion.

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This all misleadingly implies that the Leges, which is certainly a treatise, criminalizes abortion under common law.

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That's unlikely, especially since the present author told the court, in a brief filed May 21, after the Dobbs draft leak, that the opinion failed to explain that the penalty in Leges was purely ecclesiastical.

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In fact, the Leges is even older, from early in the 12th century.

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Their anger, perhaps, made them "miss the trees for the forest": Hyper-focused on the big-picture loss of Roe, the liberal justices missed crucial details about the Leges and state religion.

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