- constituo – appoint, cause to stand, decide, establish, found, place, post, set, set up, settle, station, to arrange, to establish, to fix, to set up
- destino – appoint, determine settle, fix, make fast, to fasten down
- lego – appoint, choose, collect, pass through, read, select, to gather
- monstro – appoint, nominate, ordain, point out, to ordain, to show
- prodo – abandon, appoint, betray, bring forth, deliver, disclose, hand over, publish, transmit
- amittere legem terrae – to lose the law of the land
- cessante ratione legis cessat ipsa lex – when the reason for the law ceases, the law itself ceases
- consuetudo pro lege servatur – Custom is held as law.
- contra legem – against the law
- corruptissima re publica plurimae leges – When the republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous
- de lege ferenda – from law to be passed
- de lege lata – "from law passed" or "by law in force"
- ex lege – from the law
- hac lege – with this law
- inter arma enim silent leges – in a time of war, the law falls silent
- iter legis – The path of the law
- lege artis – according to the law of the art
- legem terrae – the law of the land
- leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, et moriuntur – laws of man are born, live and die
- leges sine moribus vanae – laws without morals [are] vain
- legi, intellexi, condemnavi – I read, I understood, I condemned.
- nemo est supra legis – nobody is above the law
- non in legendo sed in intelligendo legis consistunt – the laws depend not on being read, but on being understood
- nulla poena sine lege – no penalty without a law
- nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali – no crime, no punishment without a previous penal law
- praeter legem – after the law
- pro rege et lege – for king and the law
- ratio legis – reasoning of law
- vis legis – power of the law