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lagu

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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lagu, <b>. I.</b>
Wright's OE grammar
§7; §57; §320; §396;
the body of rules binding on the members of a state or community
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  • Hé hit béte swá swá lagu tǽce (

    as the law directs

    ),
      Ll. Th. i. 418, 14.
  • Swá man swýðor spæc embe rihte lage swá mann dyde máre unlaga,

      Chr. 1086; P. 218, 19.
  • Hí eallum folce góde lage (fulle lagu,

    v. l.

    ) behéton, 1052 ;
      P. 180, 33.
  • (In the passages from the Chroniclee
) I a. where the state is named
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  • On Cantwara lage,

      Ll. Th. i. 330, 17.
  • On Engla lage,

      Wlfst. 311, 4. I b.
  • Ic (Cnut) wylle ꝥ eal þeódscype Eádgáres lage healde, Cht. E. 231, 3. I c.

    the regulations that concern a particular class

    :-- Be leódgeðingðum and lage. Wæs hwílum on Engla lagum ꝥ leód and lagu fór be geþincðum, and þá wǽron þeódwitan weorðscipes wyrðe ǽlc be his mǽðe,
      Ll. Th. i. 190, 11.
  • Ðegenes lagu is ꝥ hé sý his bócrihtes wyrðe, and ꝥ hé ðreó ðinc of his lande dó,

      432, 4.
  • Norðhymbra preósta lagu, ii. 290, 1.
  • Ðeów swán and ðeów beócere æfter forðsíðe beón ánre lage wyrðe, i. 436, 20. I d.

    what is fixed by law in a particular case

    :-- Gif hwá þæne friðleásan man healde, béte ꝥ swá hit ǽr lagu wæs,
      Ll. Th. i. 384, 8.
  • Gif hine man ǽniges þinges teó, andswarie . . . swá hit lagu (riht lagu,

    v. l.

    ) sý,
      396, 1.
one of the individual rules which constitute the law (v. I.)
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  • Ælfrédes laga cyninges,

      Ll. Th. i. 152, 13.
  • Ðis syndon þá laga þe Æðelréd cyng and his witan gerǽdd habbað,

      292, 1.
  • Cyninges lage lytledon,

      348, 19.
  • Tuá lagena ł ǽa

    bis legum

    ,
      Germ. 388, 16.
  • On Engla lagum,

      Ll. Th. i. 190, 11.
  • Man rihte laga úp árǽre,

      316, 25: 328, 1.
  • Lage,

      228, 1.
a particular branch of law
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  • Mid cynelicere lage

    fiscali jure

    ,
      An. Ox. 4844.
the action of the courts of law, law (in to go to law )
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  • Þár þegen áge twégen costas, lufe oþþe lage,

      Ll. Th. i. 298, 6.
  • Sé ꝥe rihte lage and rihte dóm forsace,

      384, 16.
of divine law.
(
God's) law or laws
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  • Gif hwá Godes lage oþþe folclage wirde,

      Ll. Th. ii. 296, 22.
  • Crístene lage healdan, i. 318, 11.
  • Crístes lage wanodan,

      348, 18.
  • Godes laga healdan,

      346, 24.
  • Godcunde laga,

      306, 25.
the law of Moses
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  • Þis is lagu and wítigan,

      Scint. 4, 8.
  • God gesette þá fíf béc on þám þe is Godes lagu, and Móyses hí áwrát . . . and seó lagu forbeád mancynne sinna tó gefremmenne,

      Ll. Th. ii. 366, 17-23.
  • Móyses cwæð on Godes lage, i. 196, 3.
the Mosaic dispensation
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  • Under Móyses lage men móston lybban on máran sóftnysse þonne nú æfter Crístes ácennednysse,

      Hml. A. 15, 58.
customary rule or
usage
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  • Landlaga sýn mistlice . . . laga sceal on leóde luflíce leornian sé þe on lande sylf nele leósan

    leges et consuetudines terrarum sunt varie . . . leges debet in populis libenter addiscere, qui non vult in patria solus amittere

    ,
      Ll. Th. i. 440, 23.
what is considered right and proper
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  • Þæt wé beón wære ꝥ wé náhwár ne gán of lage,

      Angl. viii. 308, 18.
a rule of action or
procedure
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  • Hé lǽrde þæt manna gehwilc óðrum beóde þæt, þæt hé wille þæt man him beóde. Ðæt is rihtlic lagu,

      Wlfst. 67, 3.
  • Þis is seó lagu þe wé healdan sculan,

      274, 13.
  • Mid stíþum lagum

    strictis (pudicitiae) legibus, i. ordinibus, An. Ox. 2178. VIII a. a rule laid down by one in authority for the treatment of a subject :-- Laga áwritenum gesettnessum gedémdan (orthodoxorum patrum) scita (i. decreta) scriptis decretalibus sancxerunt

    ,
      An. Ox. 1964.
  • Rǽdborena laga

    iuris peritorum scita

    , 5226.
Similar entries
v. burg-lagu, folc-lagu, griþ-lagu, mǽg-lagu, preóst-lagu, regol-lagu.
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