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"Verba legis" (LEGAL WORDS) is a LATIN expression regularly used by Thomas Aquinas to mean 'the letter of the law'.

When we contrast 'the letter of the law' with 'the spirit of the law', the medieval (or ancient) scholastic term for 'letter of the law' is "verba legis".

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