Category: L

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)

In old European law, jurisdiction of petty offenses, as distinguished from “high justice,” (q. v.)

A lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof lands and rent- charges wfere frequently given to parish churches, etc. Keuuett, Gloss.

This statute (5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 54) renders marriages within the prohibited degrees absolutely null and void. Theretofore such marriages were voidable merely.

L. This letter, as a Roman numeral, stands for the number “fifty.” It is also used as an abbreviation for “law,” “liber,” (a book,) “lord,” and some other words of which it

Negligence, consisting in the omission of something which a party might do, and might reasonably be expected to do, towards the vindication or enforcement of his rights. The word is generally the

from the Saxon “lag.” Law; a law.

In English law. A degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in prejudice of the universities. 3 Steph. Comm. 65; 1 Bl. Comm. 381.

A place on a river or other navigable water for lading and unlading goods, or for the reception and delivery of passengers; the terminus of a road on a river or other

n. In ecclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right to present or collate to a vacant benefice from a person vested with such right to another, in consequence of some

In old records. Sidesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell.

Larceny.

The cutting several claws of the forefeet of dogs in the forest, to prevent their running at deer.