Category: L

Lat. Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieuteuant, or representative.

A name given to tbe merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe.

The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 1S9. -Low-water mark. See WATER-MARK.

As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as where several distinct parcels of real estate, or several articles of personal property, are sold together for a “lump”

In Scotch law. The ancient duty of this officer was to carry public messages to foreign states, and it Is still the practice of the heralds to make all royal proclamations at

An abbreviation which may stand either for “Lord Chancellor,” “Lower Canada,” or “Leading Cases.”

Lat. In old English law. Defect in the weight of money; lack of weight. This word and the verb “lactarc” are used in an assise or statute of the sixth year of

See LIGAN.

A cant term on the stock exchange for a person unable to meet his engagements.

An expression sometimes applied to a piece of laud belonging to one person uud surrounded by land belonging to other persons, so that it cannot be ap- proached except over their laud.

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to

A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between its termini; it is but another name for a branch road, both being a part of the

A second mowing; the aftermath.

Not subject to law ; not controlled by law; not authorized by law; not observing the rules and forms of law. See Arkansas v. Kansas & T. Coal Co. (C. C.) 90

The waste or diminution of a liquid caused by its leaking from the cask, barrel, or other vessel in which it was placed. Also an allowance made to an importer of liquids,

A book of accounts in which a trader enters the names of all persons with whom he has dealings; there being two parallel columns iu each account, one for the entries to

An embassy; a diplomatic minister and his suite; the persons commis- sioned by one government to exercise diplomatic functions at the court of another, in- cluding the minister, secretaries, attaches, Interpreters, etc.,

In old English law. A fugitive or runaway.

A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta. 1. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley.

Lat. Light; slight; trifling. Levis culpa, slight fault or neglect. Levis- sima culpa, the slightest neglect. Levis no- ta, a slight mark or brand. See Rrand v. Schenectady & T. R. Co.,