Category: L

A person to whom a license has been granted

In tbe law of oontraots

In Roman law. A weigb-er or balance-holder. The person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancl-pation per as et libram. Inst 2, 10, 1

In old English law. A pound; also a sum of money equal to a pound ster-ling

In Saxon law. witchcraft, particularly that kind whlch consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philters. Sometimes occurring in the Latinised form liblacum

In veal law. Freehold. Frank-tenement

In old English law. Free socage. Bract fol. 207 ; 2 BL Comm. 61, 62

In old

1. Freedom; exemptlon from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the individual without re-straint, coercion, or control from other per-sous. See Booth v. Illinois, 184 U. S. 425, 22 Sup. Ct. 425, 46 L. Ed. […]

A destroyer of liberty

A

Lat. Liberty; freedom; a prlvilege; a franchlse

In Saxon law. Freemen; the possessors of allodial lands. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5

In old English law

In old English practice. An orlglual writ issuing out of chancery to

Lat. In tbe civU law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one hls llberty. Calvin

To

Lat (Feminine of liber, adj.) Free; at liberty; exempt; not subject to toll or charge

A livery or delivery of so much corn or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn, and received some part or small portion of it as a reward or gratuity. CoweU

Defamatory; of the nature of a libel; constituting or involving libel

Lat. In tbo civil law. A little book. Libcllus supplex, a petition, es-peeially to the emperor, all petitions to whom must be iu writing. Libcllum rescribere, to mark ou such petition the answer to It Libcllum ugcrc, to assist or counsel the emper-or in regard to such petitions. Libcllus ao-cusatorius, an information and accusation of […]

A party against whom a libel has been filed in an eccleslastlcal court or in admiralty

The complainant or party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff in actions at law

An old French coin, of sllver or copper, formerly current to a limited extent ln England, and there computed as equivalent to a farthing

1. Bound or obliged ln law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensa-tion, or restitution

The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice to do, pay, or make good something; legal responsibility, wood v. Currey, 57 Cal. 209; McElfresh v

An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion

Licentiousness; an offense against the public economy, when of an an open and notorious character; as by frequenting houses of 111 fame, which is an indictable offense, or by some grossly scandalous and public indecency, for which tlie punishment at common law ls flne and imprlson-ment. wharton. See Brooks v. State, 2 Yerg. (Tenn.) 483; […]

In criminal law. The assembling of a body of men for the purpose of effectlug by force a treasonable object

Degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eight-eenth chapter of Leviticus

An embankment or artificial mound of earth constructed along the mar-gin of a river, to confine tbe stream to its natural channel or prevent Inundation or overflow. State v. New orleans & N. E. R. Co., 42 La. Ann. 138, 7 South. 226; Royse v. Evansville & T. II. R. Co., 160 Ind. 592

Lat. An expression used in the Roman law, and applied to the trial of wreck and salvage. Commentators disagree about the origin of the expression; but all agree that its general meaning is that these causes shall be heard summarily. The most probable solution is that it refers to the place where causes were heard. […]

Lat A writ of ex

L. Fr. Ris-ing up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon laud to have lain down to rest and risen up to feed; generally the space of a night and a day, or, at least, one night

Lat For

In old Frenob law. A

The act of awarding a contract; e. g., a construction contract, or contract for carrying the mails

I. one of the arbitrary marks or characters constituting the alphabet, and used ln written language as the representatives of so’unds or articulations of the human organs of speech. Several of the letters of the English alphabet have a special significance in jurisprudence, as ab-breviations and otherwise, or are employed as numerals

In Spanish law. An advo-cate. white, New Recop. b. 1, tit 1, c. 1, | 3, note

In Scotch iaw. A deadly weapon. See State v. Godfrey, 17 or. 300, 20 Pac. 625, 11 Am. St Rep. 830

Pastures. Domesday; Co. Litt 4b. A term often inserted in old deeds and conveyances. Cowell

Lastage or leafage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Cowell

Lestoge free, or exempt from the duty of paying ballast money. Cowell

A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta

Fr. In French maritime law. Ballast, ord. Mar. llv. 4, tit. 4. art. 1

He who grants a lease. Viter-bo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776

He to whom a lease ls made. He who holds an estate by vlrtue of a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander, 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776

An inferior officer ln forests to take care of the vert and venison therein, etc. wharton

Fr. Damage; Injury; detriment Kelham. A term of the Scotch law

Trees fallen by chance or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 341