Category: L

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

Relating to place; expressive of place; belonging or confined to a particular place. Distinguished from “general,” “personal,” and “transitory.”

Lat. A place; the place where a thing is done.

In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular. In the language of the stock exchange, a broker or speculator

Legal; authorized by or conforming to law. Also faithful in one’s political relations; giving faithful support to one’s prince or sovereign or to the existing government.

Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon.

(also L. Lat.) and L. F. (also L. Fr.) are used as abbreviations of the terms “Law Latin” and “Law French.”

In Saxon law. A purgation, or mode of trial by which one purged himself of an accusation ; as by oath or ordeal. Spelman. A water-course; a trench or canal for draining

A lawful man; a good and lawful man. A juror. Cowell.