Category: L

Not subject to law ; not controlled by law; not authorized by law; not observing the rules and forms of law. See Arkansas v. Kansas & T. Coal Co. (C. C.) 90

The waste or diminution of a liquid caused by its leaking from the cask, barrel, or other vessel in which it was placed. Also an allowance made to an importer of liquids,

A book of accounts in which a trader enters the names of all persons with whom he has dealings; there being two parallel columns iu each account, one for the entries to

An embassy; a diplomatic minister and his suite; the persons commis- sioned by one government to exercise diplomatic functions at the court of another, in- cluding the minister, secretaries, attaches, Interpreters, etc.,

In old English law. A fugitive or runaway.

A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta. 1. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley.

Lat. Light; slight; trifling. Levis culpa, slight fault or neglect. Levis- sima culpa, the slightest neglect. Levis no- ta, a slight mark or brand. See Rrand v. Schenectady & T. R. Co.,

In old English law. Livery; money paid for the delivery or use of a thing. In old Scotch law. Livery; a fee given to a servant or officer. Skene. Money, meat, driuk,

In Roman law. A writer or amanuensis; a copyist. Dig. 50, 17, 92.

To adjoin. A cottage must have had four acres of laud laid to it. See 2 Show. 279.

I11 old English law. A liege- woman ; a female subject. Reg. Orig. 3126.

In old English law. A flax plat, where flax is grown. Du Cange.

Lat. To make a suit his own. Where a judex, from partiality or enmity, evidently favored either of the parties, he was said litem suam facere. Calvin.

Lat. In the civil and canon law. Contestation of suit; the process of contesting a suit by the opposing statements of the respective parties; the process of coming to an issue; the

“Lobbying” Is defined to be any personal solicitation of a member of a legislative body during a session thereof, by private interview, or letter or message, or other means and appliances not

Lat. In the civil law. Able to respond in an action; good for the amount which the plaintiff might recover. Dig. 50, 10, 234, 1.

L. Fr. London. Yearb. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4.

Fr. In French maritime law. Wages. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 14, art. 16.

Lunacy is that condition or habit in which the mind is directed by the will, but is wholly or partially misguided or erroneously governed by it; or it is the im- pairment

In old Roman law. A name given to students of the civil law in the fourth year of their course, from their being supposed capable of solving any difficulty in law. Tayl.