Lege

- tree, a young voice saying quickly, "_Tolle lege, tolle lege_" (take and read, take and read), and which he took as a Divine admonition; these, combined with the commotion of the times, would lend their influence to the position he came to occupy. ❋ Robert Wallace (N/A)

So that of things done lege, that is to say, by command of the law, there is some place for a distinction between lege divinâ and lege civili. ❋ Unknown (1650)

The acquisition of a spouse, either as a husband or as a wife, is therefore not constituted facto — that is, by cohabitation — without a preceding contract; nor even pacto — by a mere contract of marriage, without subsequent cohabitation; but only lege, that is, as a juridical consequence of the obligation that is formed by two persons entering into a sexual union solely on the basis of a reciprocal possession of each other, which possession at the same time is only effected in reality by the reciprocal usus facultatum sexualium alterius. ❋ Unknown (1790)

It is, however, somewhat doubtful if there really was such a law; and the better opinion seems to be that the word "lege" meant ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1847)

Erratum in your last, 1. antepenult, pro "fear a _Dun_" lege "fear a ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)

If Democrats retain control of both houses of the New York state lege, redistricting may not be as big a problem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Aside from the seats NY will lose due to population loss, a problem the lege seems happy to casually ignore.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

By this logic: Why not force Texas to lose 3-5 Congress seats, and then use their GOP-held state lege to purge only Democratic districts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OF COURSE, the Minnesota lege would eliminate her district if it came to that, but not because of partisanship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What happened was that in 2006 New Hampshire started voting more like the rest of New England — knocked out both Republican reps, saw an incredible D tidal wave in the state lege, and then in 2008 Sununu Jr. never really had a chance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you know about the Texas lege, you know why our best hope is to be stuck with this form forever. ❋ E_moon60 (2010)

County tax appraisal districts are required to require yup, that's right landowners doing wildlife management to use a form designed by the state parks & wildlife department, which form was approved by the legislature and thus can't be changed without risking the whole program going through the lege again. ❋ E_moon60 (2010)

From the huge child molestation scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church to sex scandals involving Protestant preachers from Jimmy Swaggart to Ted Haggard former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, and a former ORU col lege mate of mine, it seems that more than ever, the story of sexuality and Christianity has become a case of “Do as I say, not as I do.” ❋ Carlton Pearson (2010)

Elsewhere, Alabama and LSU battle in a game the col lege-football experts will argue is important Saturday, 3: 30 p.m. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She said all along she would veto it concealed weapons bill passed by the Texas lege in 1993, but the NRA put up a helluva campaign to convince her to sign it; one of their more innovative tactics was to try to persuade the feminist guv that Texas women would feel ever so much safer if they could only carry guns in their purses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are only 5 seats away from taking back the Texas lege - for what it's worth, which is very little (but we only let them meet every other year - we're not totally insane). ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we're also only 5 seats away from taking back control of the Texas lege and that would be huge! ❋ Unknown (2009)