Lex lata

De lege lata ( lit. after -laid law) is Latin and means by applicable law. The antonym is " de lege ferenda ".

The term is used to define whether a legal consequence under current law is reachable or if a legal consequence, although ethically or after the performance of the beholder possible desirable, but not by applicable law, but only by a change in the legal, according to -creating legal is.