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LIGA

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

LIMITATION

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

LISTED

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

LITIGIOSO

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.

LOADMANAGE

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

LOGOGRAPHUS

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

LOVE-DAY

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.

LUMINA

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

LYNCH LAW

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,

LACERTA

In old English law. A fathom. Co. Litt. 4b.

LAFORDSWIC

In Saxon law. A betraying of one’s lord or master.

LAMBARD’S EIRENARCHA

A work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599.

LANDIMER

In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene.

LAPSE

v. To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees. To slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. To fall or fail.

LATENT

Hidden ; concealed ; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY.

LATROCINIUM

The prerogative of adjudging and executing thieves; also larceny; theft; a thing stolen.

LAWFUL

Law always constrneth things to the best. Wing. Max. p. 720, max. 193. Law constrneth every act to be lawful, when it standeth indifferent whether it shonld be lawful or not. Wing.

LEADING QUESTION

A question put or framed in such a form as to suggest the answer sought to be obtained by the person Interrogating. Coogler v. Rhodes, 38 Fla. 240, 21 South. Ill, 50

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