Category: L

Lat In Roman law. I bequeath. A common term in wills. Dig. 30, 36, 81, et seq.

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

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

adj. Lat. free; open and accessible, as applied to courts, places, etc.; ot the state or condition of a freeman, as applied to persons.

In real law. Freehold. Frank-tenement. In pleading. A plea of freehold. A plea by the defendant in an action of trespass to real property that the locus in quo is bis freehold,

In Roman law. A bidder at a sale.

In old European law. A league or confederation. Spelman.

Restriction or circum- spection; settling an estate or property; a certain time allowed by a statute for litigation. In estates. A limitation, whether made by the express words of the party or

Included in a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property.

Span. Litigious; the subject of litigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute iu a pending suit. White v. Gay, 1 Tex. 3SS.

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, In barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, In order that she

See IN Loco PARENTIS.

In Roman law. A public clerk, register, or book-keeper; one LOGS 737

In old English law. The day on which any dispute was amicably settled between neighbors; or a day on which one neighbor helps another without hire. Wharton.

Lat. In the civil law. Lights; windows; openings to obtain light for one’s building.

A term descriptive of the action of unofficial persons, organized bands, or mobs, who seize persons charged with or suspected of crimes, or take them out of the custody of the law,

In Indian computation, 100,000. The value of a lac of rupees is about

A division or district peculiar to the county of Kent. Spelman.

A work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo- Saxon laws, those of William the Conqueror, and of Henry I.

A name formerly given to those who executed justice ou behalf of the German emperors, with regard to the internal policy of the country. It was applied, by way of eminence, to