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Latin, meaning The law does not require that to be proved which is apparent to the Court. … [Read more...] about LEX NON REQUIRIT VERIFICARI QUOD APPARET CURIAE

practice. The law of the court or forum. 2. The forms of remedies, the modes of proceeding, and the execution of judgments, are to be regulated solely and exclusively, by the laws of the place where the action is instituted or as the civilians uniformly express it, according to the lex fori. … [Read more...] about LEX FORI

Latin for the term the unwritten law which typically refers to the common law or custom. … [Read more...] about LEX NON SCRIPTA

In criminal law. The assembling of a body of men for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable object; and all who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are leagued in the general conspiracy, are considered as engaged in levying war, within the meaning of the constitution. Const, art. 3, … [Read more...] about LEVYING WAR

Latin, meaning The law presumes that one neighbor knows the acts of another. … [Read more...] about LEX INDENDIT VICINUM VICINI FACTA SCIRE