Leges
Leges (plural of Latin lex: law) may refer to:
Literature
- Laws (dialogue) Plato's last and longest dialogue
Ancient Roman law
- Leges regiae, early Roman laws introduced by the Kings of Rome
- Lex Julia (Leges Juliae), ancient Roman laws, introduced by any member of the Julian family
- Leges Clodiae, series of laws passed by the Plebeian Council of the Roman Republic
- Leges provinciae, 146 BC laws concerning the regulation and administration of Roman provinces
- Lex Antonia (Leges Antoniae), law established in ancient Rome in 44 BC
- Lex Licinia Sextia (Leges Liciniae Sextiae), Roman law which restored the consulship in 367 BCE
Laws in other governments
- Leges Henrici Primi, legal treatise, written circa 1115, on legal customs of medieval England
- Leges palatinae, laws governing the functioning of the royal court of the Kingdom of Majorca
- Leges Edwardi Confessoris, early twelfth-century English collection of 39 laws
- Leges Genuciae, laws proposed in 342 BCE by plebeian consul Lucius Genucius
- Leges barbarorum; see Early Germanic law
- Sacrae Disciplinae Leges, 1983 apostolic constitution by Pope John Paul II
- Leges inter Brettos et Scottos, legal codification under David I of Scotland
- Welsh law (Leges Walliae)
- Edictum Rothari (Leges Langobardorum) 643 CE compilation of Lombard law
Phrases
- Inter arma enim silent leges ("In times of war, the law falls silent"), phrase attributed to Cicero
- Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of the series
- Leges sine Moribus vanae, motto of University of Pennsylvania
Other uses
- Leges (diocese), a Roman Catholic titular bishopric in modern Algeria; see Numidia#Episcopal sees
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