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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lex non Scripta

The common law, as distinguished from the statute or written law. Common law does not derive its force from being recorded, and though its several provisions have been complied and printed, the compilations are not statutes, but simply remembrancers.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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