LOW JUSTICE
In old European law, jurisdiction of petty offenses, as distinguished from “high justice,” (q. v.)
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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.
In old English law. A fathom. Co. Litt. 4b.
In Saxon law. A betraying of one’s lord or master.
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.
In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene.
v. To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees. To slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. To fall or fail.
Hidden ; concealed ; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY.
The prerogative of adjudging and executing thieves; also larceny; theft; a thing stolen.
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 old English law. A pound; also a sum of money equal to a pound sterling.
To subsist; to exist; to be sustainable; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase “an action will uot lie” means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no