Category: L

Ascertained; determin-ed; fixed; settled; made clear or manifest Cleared away; paid; discharged

To adjust or settle an ln-debtedness; to determine an amount to lie paid; to clear up an account and ascertain the balance; to fix the amount required to satisfy a judgment Midgett v. watson, 2D N. C. 145; Martin v. Kirk, 2 Humph. (Tennj 531

It ls’clear or apparent; lt appears. Satis liquet, it sufficiently appears. 1 Strange, 412

Lat In the civU law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory, when a judex was ln doubt how to declde a case, he represented to the prtetor, under oath, sibi non Uquerc, (that lt was not dear to hlm,) and was thereupon dlscharged. Calvln

Race; progeny; famlly, ascending or descendlng. Lockett v. Lockett, 94 Ky. 289, 22 S. W. 224

Lat. A line; line of descent. See Line

In descents. The order or series of persons who have descended one front the other or ell from a common ancestor, considered as placed in a line of succession in the .order of their birth, the line showing the connection of all the blood-relatives

INN. An lnn of court. See Inns or Coubt

In old Engllsh law. A flax plat, where flax ls grown. Dn Cange

Enamel. Du Cange

Restricted; bounded; pre-scribed. Confined within positive bounds; restricted in duration, extent, or scope

Restriction or circumspection ; settling an estate or propertya certain time allowed by a statute for litigation

In Roman law. An officer who had charge of a harbor or port. Dig. 50, 4, 18, 10; Cod. 7, 16, 38

In old Euglish law. A copy, exemplification, or transcript of a court roll or deed. Cowell

Timber fit for bulldlng. Du Fresne

A right of cuttlng fuel in woods; also a-tribute or payment due for the same. Jacob

A person bound to another by a solemn tie or engagement. Now used to express the relation of a subject to his sovereign

1. windows; openings in the wall of a house for the admission of light

Tbe. master or owner of a lighter. He is liable as a common car-rier

The business of transferring merchandise to and from vessels by means of lighter^; also tbe compensation or price demanded for such service, west-ern Transp. Co. v. Hawley, 1 Daly (N. Y.) 327

A small vessel used ln load-lug and unloading ships and steamers. The Mamie (D. C.) 5 Fed. 818; Reed v. Ingham, 26 Eng. Law & Eq. 167

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A structure, usually in the form of a tower, containing signal-lights for the guidance of vessels at night, at dangerous points of a coast, shoals, etc. They are usually erected by government, and sub-Ject to governmental regulation

A window, or opening ln the wall for the admission of light Also a privilege or easement to have light admitted into one’s building by the openlngs made for

In old records. A liege

Allegiance; the faithful obedience of a subject to hls sovereign, of a citizen to his government Also, derivatively, the territory of a state or sovereignty

In old English law. A llege-woman; a female subject. Reg. orig. 312b

To tie or bind. Bract, fol. 869b

In old European law. A league or confederation. Spelman

That state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, ln which its natu-ral functions and motions are performed, or in which Its organs are capable of perform-lng thelr functions, webster

1. A deputy; substi* tute; an officer who supplies the place of another; one acting by vicarious authority. Etymologically, one who holds the post or office of another, in the place and stead ol the latter

See Commission or Assay.

L. Fr. In old pleading. A known place; a place well known and generally taken notlce of by those who dwell about it, as a castle, a manor, etc. whishaw; 1 Ld. Raym. 259

The person having or owning -a lien; one who has a right of lien upon property of another

A qualified right of property which a creditor has In or over specific property of his debtor, as security for the debt or charge or for performance of some act

IEGE PEOPLE. Subjects

R, or LEGER. A resident ambassador

He that oweth allegiance. Cowell

In fendal law. Bound by a ” feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who owned no superior

To adjoin. A cottage must’ have had four acres of land laid to it See 2 Show. 279

A sort of lynch law, whereby a person was first punished and then tried, wharton

An ancient formallty by which bargains were completed

In Roman law. A bidder at a sale

In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a thing in common and undivided between them put it to bid between them, to be ad-judged and to belong to the highest snd […]

In Spanish law. The offering for sale at publlc auction of an estate or property held by co-heirs or joint proprie-tors, which cannot he divided up without det-rirnent to the whole

LaL In Roman law. To offer u prlce for a thing; to hid for it

Lat To be lawful ; to be al-lowed or permitted by law. Calvln

Lat License; leave; per-mission

The person who gives or grants a license

TS. This expression ls applied by Hallam (Const Hist. c. 13) to acts of parliament for the restraint of printing, except by license. It may also be ap-plied to any act of parliament passed for the purpose of requiring a license for doing any act whatever. But, generally, when we speak of the licensing acts, […]