Definition of "lege" []

• Legislature (noun)
• To allege; to assert. (verb)
• Legend, colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard. (noun)

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• "- 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."
• "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."
• "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."