ex lege

American  

[eks le-ge, eks lee-jee] / ɛks ˈlɛ gɛ, ɛks ˈli dʒi /

adverb

Latin.

1. by virtue of law.

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Example Sentences

From eight o'clock in the morning till eleven in the forenoon, he was engaged in holding up to the world in a favourable light the programme of Dr. Frank of Pavia, which was entitled: 'Sermo Academicus de civis medici in republica conditione atque officiis, ex lege pr�ipue erutis.

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Nec ex lege, nec ex religione factum ... tibi assumas," says he, "ut libertatem voluntatis impedias, et vincula mentibus effrenatis injicias?

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I. 2: "Sicut ex lege ac prophetis et a domino nostro Jesu Christo didicimus."

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All the lands comprised in the above are declared in lines seven and eight to be private property, in these words: "Ager locus omnis quei supra scriptus est, extra eum agrum locum, quei ager locus ex lege plebeivescito, quod C. Sempronius Ti. f. tr. pl. rogavit, exsceptum cavitumve est nei divideretur ... privatus esto."

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Quicquid ex lege, scripturis, et ex consuetudine aliarum gentium constituit, quàm sancte obseruant.

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