Category: L

In old Roman law. A name given to students of the dvil law in the fourth year of their course, from their being supposed capable of solving any difficulty in law. Tayl. Civil Law, 39

In Scotch law. The ancient duty of this officer was to carry public messages to foreign states, and lt ls still the practice of the heralds to make all royal proclamations at the Cross of Edinburgh. The officers serving under him are heralds, pursuivants, and messengers. Bell

Lying ln ambush; lying hid or concealed for the purpose of making a sudden and unexpected attack upon a person when he shall arrive at the scene. In some jurisdictions, where there are sev-eral degrees of murder, lying ln wait is made evidence of that deliberation and premedltat

A phrase applied to Incorporeal rights, Incapable of manual tra-ditlon, and whlch must pass by mere dellv-ery of a deed

A term descriptive of waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may be seized without snit or action

A person who, hy hls pres-ence and silence at a transaction which affects hls interests, may be fairly supposed to acquiesce ln it, if he afterwards propose to disturb the arrangement, is said to be pre-vented from doing so by reason that he has been lying by

Sax. In old records. Lief silver or money; a small flne paid by the customary tenant to the lord for leave to plow or sow, etc Somn. Gavelkind, 27

The gate Into a church-yard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over It to cover the body brought for burial, when lt rests underneath, wharton

Excess and extravagance which was formerly an offense against the public economy, but is not now punishable, wharton

In old English law. A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, and introduced Into England in the reign of Edward III. Prohibited by St 25 Edw. III. c. 4. Spelman; Cowell

Casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water, wharton

A bawd or strumpet. 3 lnst. 206

In old English law. A silver penny, so called because it was to be coln-ed only at London, (a Londres,) and not at the country mints. Lown. Essay Coins, 17; Cowell

Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon

As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as

A lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof lands and rent-charges were frequently given to parish churches, etc. Kennett, Gloss

Lat. In the civil law. Light; the light of the sun or sky; the privilege of receiving light into a house

Luggage may consist of any articles intended for the use of a passenger while traveling, or for his personal equip-ment. Civ. Code Cal. $ 2181

In Roman law. Mourning. See Annus Luctus

AS. A mournful inheritance. See H^keditas Luctuosa

Lat. In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss

Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy, webster

ln Scotch law. A gainer

Lat This

Lat. In Roman law. A consideration which is voluntary; that is to say, a gratuitous gift, or such like. It was opposed to onerosa causa, which denoted a valuable consideration. It was a principle of the Roman law that two lucra-tive causes could not concur in the same person as regarded the same thing; that […]

In medical ju-risprudence. Intervals occurring in the men-tal life of an insane person during which he is completely restored to the use of his reason, or so far restored that be has suffl-dent intelligence, judgment, and will to enter Into contractual relations, or perform other legal acts, without disqualification by reason of his disease. See […]

Fr. In French maritime law. wages, ord. Mar. llv. 1, tit. 14, art. 16

A recompense for the death

The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 189

In old English law. The day on whlch any dispute was amicably settled between neighbors; or a day on which one neighbor helps another without hire, wharton

A ram or bell-wether

Fr. This is the contract of hiring and letting in Freuch law, and may be either of things or of labor. The varieties of each are the following

A lottery ls any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by chance among persons who have paid, or

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A small tract or par-cel of land ln a village, town, or city, suitable for .building, or for a garden, or other simllar uses. See Pllz v. Klllingsworth, 20 or. 432. 26 Pac. 305; wilson v. Proctor, 28 Mlnn. 13, 8 N. W. 830; webster v. Little Rock, 44 Ark. 551; Diamond Mach. Co. v. […]

In inanranoe. The injury or damage sustained by the insured in consequence of the happening of one or more of the accidents or misfortunes against which tbe insurer, in consideration of the premium, has undertaken to indemnify the insured. 1 Bouv. Inst no. 1215

Iu English law. Domin* lou, manor, seigniory, domain; also a title of honor used to a nobleman not being a duke. It is also the customary titulary appellatlon of the judges and some other persons in authority and office

A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands of the manor. Sweet

In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular

L. Fr. London. Yearb. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4

A name given to the mer-chants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe

A body of primitive Wes-leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful iu disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against thelr wlll) in tbe insurrection of,the villeins in 1381, the statute De Haretico Comburen-do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, […]

In Roman law. A*’ public clerk, register, or book-keeper; one

In old records. A lodge, hov-el, or outhouse

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding wbich are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes both tlie process Itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all other lntellectual operations, In so far as auxiliary to this

A small house, lodge, or cot-tage. Mon. Angl. tom. 1, p. 400

An unlawful game mention-ed in SL 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9

In old French and Canadian law. A flne payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation fine, Steph. Lect. 351

The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from oue place to another. CowelL

or LOADSMAN. The pilot conducts the ship up the river-or Into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by the pilot, to the quay or place of discharge. Jacob.