Category: L

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.

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

An instructor ; a reader of lectures; also a clergyman who assists rect- ors, etc., in preaching, etc.

Nuncios, deputies, or extraordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to be LEGATION 709

A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forms of law. Calvin.

He who grants a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776.

That which may be levied. That which is a proper or permissible subject for a levy; as, a “leviable interest” in land. See Bray v. Iiagsdale, 53 Mo. 172.

To lose one’s free law, (called the villainous judgment,) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted,

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

Enamel. Du Cange.

Lat. In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another: particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued in respect to it by a

Lat. The measure of damages.

is an agreement by which one person delivers to another a certain quantity of things which are consumed by the use, under the obligation, by the borrower, to return to him as

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