Significatio vocis lex | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill
   declension-3
2. a bill which has become a law, a law, a statute
   declension-3, figuratively
3. a precept, regulation, principle, rule, mode, manner
   declension-3, figuratively
4. a contract, agreement, covenant
   declension-3, figuratively
5. a condition, stipulation, terms
   declension-3, figuratively

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Lex universa est quae iubet nasci et mori.”

The universal law is that which ordains that we are to be born and to die. dura lex, sed lex. The law is tough but it is the law.

Gradus CEFR