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The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

Note 1057 — Chapter IX · THE COMITIA CURIATA

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Lex may be related to lēgare, ligare, “to bind”; Brugmann, Grundriss, I. i. 134; Corssen, Aussprache, i. 444; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 112, n. 1; Lange, Röm. Alt. 1. 315 (“bindende Vorschrift”). Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 308, n. 4, quotes J. Schmidt for the fundamental meaning of the root leg, “to place in order,” connecting it with English “law” (cf. θεσμός, Gesetz); cf. Kretschmer, Einleitung in die Geschichte der griech. Sprache, 165; Schrader, Reallexikon, 657; Christ, in Sitzb. d. bayer. Akad. d. Wiss. 1906. 215.

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