1. That which is laid down, ordained, or established. A rule or method according to which phenomena or actions coexist or follow each other.

human conduct, answering to the Latin “jus ;” as when it is spoken of as a subject of study or practice. In this sense, it includes the deé- cisions of courts of justice, as well as acts of the. legislature. The judgment of a competent court, until reversed or otherwise superseded, is law, as much as any statute. Indeed, it may happen that a statute may be passed in violation of Jaw, that is, of the fundamental law or constitution of a state; that it is the prerogative of courts in such cases to declare it void. or, in other words, to declare it not to be law. Burrill.

Many statutes are classed under one of the divisions above mentioned because they have merely modified or extended portions of It, while others have created altogether new rules. That part of the law which is derived from custom is sometimes called the “customary law,’ as to which, see CusTomM. Sweet. .

tended to operate upon future cases only; the latter, when they may also embrace transactions occurring before their passage.

fully warrant the appellation, but at the time of its introduction it was, as has been observed, the best form of the language spoken in Normandy. Burrill.—Law Latin. The cor- Tupt form of the Latin language employed in the old English law-books and legal proceedings. It contained many barbarous words and combinations.—Law list. An annual English publication of a quasi official character, comprising various statistics of interest in connection with the legal profession. It includes (among other information) the following matters: A list of judges, queen’s counsel, and serjeants at law: the judges of the county courts; benchers of the inns of court; bareters in alphabetical order; the names of counsel practicing in the several circuits of England and Wales; London attorneys; country attorneys; officers of .the courts of chancery and common law; the magistrates and law officers of the city of London; the metropolitan magistrates and police; recorders; coun” ty court officers and circuits; lord lieutenants and sheriffs; colonial judges and officers; publie notaries. Mozley & Whitley—Law lords. Peers in the British parliament who have held high judicial office, or have been distinguished in the legal profession. Mozley & Whitley. Law martial. See MARTIAL Law.—-Law merehant. See MERCANTILE Law.—Law of mations. See INTERNATIONAL Law.—Law of nature. See NaTuraL Law.—Law of arms. That law which gives precepts and rules concerning war; how to make and observe leagues and truce, to punish offenders in the camp, and such lIlke. Cowell; Blount. Now more commonly called the “law of war.” —Law of citations. In Roman law. An act of Valentinian, passed A. D. 426, providing that the writings o rd five jurists, vis., Papinian, Paul, Gaius, Ulpian, and Modestinus, should be quoted as authorities. The majority was binding on the judge. If they were equally divided the opinion of Papinian was to prevail; and in such a case, if Papinian was silent upon the matter, then the judge was free to follow his own view of the matter. ‘Brown. —Law of evidence. The aggregate of rules and principles regulating the admissibility, relevancy, and weight and sufficiency of evidence in legal proceedings. See Ballinger’s

hears before {t condemns, which proceeds u inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not the law of the land. Sedg. St. & Const. Law, (2d Ed.) 475. When first used in Magna Charta, the phrase “the law of the land’ probably meant the established law of the kingdom, in opposition to the civil or Roman, law, which was about being introduced. It is now generally regarded as meaning general public laws binding on all members of the community, in contradistinction from parcial or private laws. Janes vy. Reynolds, 2 Tex. 251; State v. Burnett, 6