Category: L

The king’s lard- erer, or clerk of the kitchen. Cowell.

The right of lateral and subjacent support is that right which the owner of land has to have his land supported by the adjoining land or the soil LATERARE 699

Lat. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one’s title or authority. Calvin. In fendal law. To determine or pass upon judicially. Laudamentum, the finding or award

A vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons iu the courts of law.

Fr. Loyal; that which belongs to the law.

In old English law. A lathe-reeve, or chief officer of a lathe. Spelman.

One who makes a will, and leaves legacies

In ecclesiastical law. The quadragesimal fast; a time of abstinence; the time from Ash-Wednesday to Easter.

Lestage free, or exempt from the duty of paying ballast money. Cowell. LESTAGIUM 712 LETTER

Degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. LEVY v. To raise ; execute; exact; collect; gather; take up; seize.

In the civil law. The extinguishment of a contract, by which he who was bound becomes free or liberated. Wolff, lust. Nat.

A portion of ground containing four oxgangs, and every oxgang fourteen acres. Cowell. This is the same with what in Scotland was called “pound- land” of old extent Wharton.

An old form of “lieutenant,” and still retained as the vulgar pro- nunciation of the word.

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

An inn of court. See INNS OF COURT.

Lat. A letter. The letter of a law, as distinguished from its spirit. See LETTER.

Lat. In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who is sued for ils possession or recovery by a third person, falls back upon his vendor’s covenant of

In Scotch law. This name is given to a life-rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life-rent of tierce. 1 Bell. Comm.

This term, as used in the legislation of congress, is applicable to tiny zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes all

A proper lookout on a vessel is some one in a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to communicate with him, and to receive communications from him, and