Category: L

A mournful inheritance. See H^EKEDITAS LUCTUOSA.

A phrase applied to incorporeal rights, incapable of manual tra- dition, and which must pass by mere delivery of a deed.

1. Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends.

In old English law. One of a class between servile and free. Palgrave, 1. 354.

Fr. In French marine law. A pilot Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 3.

A landlord; a lord of the soil.

The act of stoning a person to death.

Defunct: existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 190. Formerly ; recently; lately

Lat. In the civil law. A bearer ; a messenger. Also a maker or giver of laws.

A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest aud other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they

Where a deed was executed before the levy of a fine of land, for the purpose of specifying to whose use the fine should inure, it was said to “lead” the use.

A fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of certain manors. 4 Inst. 206.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. To bequeath ; to leave or give by will; to give in anticipation of death. In Scotch phrase, to legate.

v. To make lawful; to confer legitimacy; to place a child born before marriage on the footing of those born in lawful wedlock. McICamie v. Baskerville, 86 Tenn. 459, 7 S. W.

Fr. Damage; injury; detriment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in

Lat. A writ of execution directing the sheriff to cause to be made of the lands and chattels of the judgment debtor the sum recovered by the judgment. Pentland v. Kelly, 6

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

In old English law. Free socage. Bract, fol. 207; 2 Bl. Comm. 01, 02.

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

To raise; to take up. To “lift” a promissory note is to discharge its obligation by paying its amount or substituting another evidence of debt. To “lift the bar” of the statute