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This term, as used in the legis-lation of congress, is applicable to any zone or belt of miueralized rotit lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neigh boriug rock. It includes all deposits of miueral matter found through a miueral-ized zone or belt coming from the same source, impressed with the same forms, and […]

Lat A place; the place where a thing is done

Lat In the civil law. Able to respond in an action; good for the amount which the plaintiff might recover. Dig. 50, 16, 234, L

Lat Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieutenant, or representative

In old records. A cotfin; a purse

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Fr. In French marine law. A local pilot whose business was to assist the pilot of the vessel in guiding her course Into a harbor, or through a river or channel. Martin v. Farnsworth, 33 N. I. Super. CL 260

An oflicer in the Isle of Man, to execute the orders of the governor, much like our under-sheriff, wharton

A place used tem

In tbe oivil and Sootob. law. A letter; one who lets; he who, belng the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913

In a deed, patent, or other instrument containing a description of land, locative calls are specific calls, de-scriptlons, or marks of location, referring to landmarks, physical oOjects, or other points by which tbe laud can be exactly located and Identified

In Amerioan land lnw

To ascertain and fix the posi-tion of something, the place of which was before uncertain or not manifest; as to locate the calls in a deed

Lat. A depositee

In French law. A lessee, tenant, or renter

In old European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent Spelman

To let for hire; to deliver or bail a thing for a certain reward or compensation. Bract fol. 62

In Scotch law. This name ls given to a life-rent created ln marrtage contracts in favor of the wife, Instead of leaving her to her legal life-rent of tierce. 1 Bell, Comm. 55

A bailment without reward; con-slsting of the delivery of an article hy the owner to another person, to be used by the latter gratuitously, and returned either in specie or in kind. A sum of money confided ? to another. Ramsey v. whitbeck, 81 111. App. x 210; Nichols v. Fearson, 7 Pet. 109, 8 […]

The pay to loadsmen; that ls, persons wbo sail or row before ships, ln barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing tbe ship and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in her way. Poth. Des Avaries, no. 137

A coin used in France before the Revolution. It ls to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act Cong. March. 2, 1798, 8 61; 1 Story, Laws; 629

See Iw

Lat In the civil law. An ob-Uteration or blot ln a will or other instru-ment. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1

Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 Amer-ican pints, or 1.76 English pints, webster

In Spanish law. Lltispendency. The condition of a suit pend-ing in a court of justice

An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit js going on

Lat In the civil

Lat. In tbe oivil and canon law. Contestation of suit; the process of contesting a suit by the op-posing statements of the respective parties; the process of coming to an issue; the attainment of an issue; the issue itself

Lat The meas

Span. Litigious; the subject of litigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute in a pending suit, white v. Gay, 1 Tex. 388

In Scotch law. The pendency of a suit; it is a tacit legal prohi-bitiou of alienation, to the disappointment of

ON. A judicial controversy. A contest ln a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right

To dispute or contend in form of law; to carry on a suit

Lat. To litigate; to carry on a suit, (litem agere,) either as plaintiff or defeudant; to claim or dispute by action; to test or try the validity of a claim by action

A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones

In English ecclesiastical law’. One who qualifies himself for holy or-ders by presenting hlmself as a person accomplished in classical learning, etc., not as a graduate of oxford, Cambridge, etc

Pertaining to polite learn-ing; connected with the study or use of books and writings

According to language; following expression in words. A literal con-structlon of a document adheres closely to its words, without making differences for extrinsic circumstances; a literal performance of a condition Is one which complies exactly with its terms

Letters. A term applied in old English law to various Instruments ln writing, public and private

Lat. A letter. The letter of a law, as dlstlngulshed from its spirit. See ICTTEB

Lat To

Lat Pending the suit Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, { 23

This word is used In some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. SL VL 638

Included ln a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property

A docket or calendar of causes ready for trlal or argument, or of motions ready for hearing

The name of an Italian coin, of the vaiue of about eighteen cents

This term, when used ln stat-utes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or Intoxicating Uquom. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 89 N. C. 576; People v. Crllley, 20 Barb. (N. Y.) 248. See Ihtoxica-tinq Liquor; Spibituous Liquor

A person appolnted to carry out the wlndlng np of a company

The act or process of settling or making clear, fixed, and determi-nate that which before was uncertain or unascertained

The partner who upon the dissolution or Insolvency of the firm, is appolnted to settle lts ac-counts, collect assets, adjust claims, and pay debts. Garretson v. Brown, 185 Pa. 447, 40 Atl. 300