Category: L

A marble stone about twelve feet long and three feet broad, placed at the upper end of Westminster Ilull, where was likewise a marble chair erected on the middle thereof, in which

Lat Latent; hidden ; not apparent. See AMBIGUITAS.

The act of robbing; a depredation.

1. That which is laid down, ordained, or established. A rule or method according to which phenomena or actions coexist or follow each other. 2. A system of principles and rules of

That one of two or more counsel employed on the same side In a cause who has the principal manage- ment of the cause.

A pulpit Mon. Angt torn. iii. p. 243. LECTURER

The person to whom a legacy is given. See LEGACY.

In old records. A fine for criminal conversation with a woman.

He to whom a lease is made. He who holds an estate by virtue of a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776.

An embankment or artificial mound of earth constructed along the margin of a river, to confine the stream to its natural channel or prevent inundation or overflow. State v. New Orleans &

A livery or delivery of so much corn or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn, and received some part or small portion of

In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particularly that kind which consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philters. Sometimes occurring in the Latinized form liblacum.

An ancient formality by which bargains were completed.

Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea in storms or

Restricted; bounded; prescribed. Confined within positive bounds; restricted in duration, extent, or scope.

This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. St. Vt. 538.

That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense, “litigious” signifies fond of litigation; prone to engage in suits.

A bailment without reward ; consisting of the delivery of an article by the owner to another person, to be used by the latter gratuitously, and returned either in specie or in

The act of giving place.

A body of primitive Wes- leyans. who assumed importance about the time of John Wycliffe, (1300,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth ; but, being implicated (apparently against their will)