The Lombards had a similar law, see Lindenbrog’s Codex Legum Antiquarum, 1613, p.
Bishop of the South-Saxons at the time of the Conquest, as “vir antiquissimus et legum terræ sapientissimus.
This is well set forth by Sir John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, cap.
Stubbs) that one was “quia non erat eo prudentior in terra, armis strenuus magis, legum terræ sagacior.
Cranmer's "Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum" contains some of the best sense about divorce law reform that I have ever read.
One cannot turn from the short and pithy "Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum" of the sixteenth century to the colossal unwieldy Blue Books of the twentieth century with any sense of satisfaction.
Leges, in terms which deserve the more attention as coming from so unqualified an admirer of Plato: "Totum Legum opus nescio quid senile refert, ut profecto etiam hanc ob caussam a sene scriptum esse longe verisimillimum videatur.
Appended to and bound with Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliae.
Bocking was published at Berlin in 1829, under the title of Corpus Legum sive Brachylogus Juris Civilis.
Goldast gave the Palatine text, compared with those of Bohemia and Frankfort, in his Collectio constitutionum et legum imperialium (Frankfort, 1613).
Another work of a different kind, wherein Haddon is said to have been concerned jointly with Sir John Cheke, is the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, the proposed code of the Anglican Church, drawn up under Edward VI.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
