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LIFE INTEREST

the term given to the interest in property that lasts for a person’s life time.

LEGAL REPORTING

is term in medical jurisprudence where physicians have to report any injuries that appear to have been inflicted in a criminal nature, such as gun shot wounds.

LITERAL PROOF

the term given to the proof that is offered as written evidence.

LEGAL MALICE

the term used to describe the intentional performance to do a wrongful act. There is constructive malice, malice in law.

LICENTIOUS

term used to apply to the lewd behaviour exceeding moral and customary bounds.

LIQUIDATED ACCOUNT

the term given to the account where the amount of money is fixed and agreed on by the parties or it fixed by a law.

LAW OF EVIDENCE

the term that is given to the total of the principles and rules that govern the presentation of evidence in a legal matter.

LAND WARRANT

the name that is given to a guarantee that is issued by the federal government land office to the purchasers of public land.

LINEUP

term used in a policing where a group of similar looking people are lined up and a witness is asked to select the suspect.

LABOR UNION

the name of an organisation of working people that is formed to protect their rights and working conditions.

LEWD

a term that also means indecent, pornographic, obscene and lascivious.

LOST PROPERTY

the term given that describes property that has been lost by carelessness or has been misplaced.

LEX SCRIPTA

a Latin phrase that means the written law and is the opposite of lex non scripta.

LEGAL DEFENSE COUNSEL

the name given to the attorney who will protect and try to acquit the defendant in a law suit.

LOGROLLING

1. The case where a legislator will vote for a bill as long as the legislator with the bill for one of the other person’s bills. 2. Using an excess of extraneous

LEGALESE

a modern word that is used to describe the legal and technical language used to write laws, wills and other legal documents.

LSAT

the abbreviation for the Law Student Achievement Test.

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