Category: L

To tie or bind. Rraet. fol. 3096. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman.

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

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.

1. A treaty of alliance between different states or parties. It may be offensive or defensive, or both. It is offensive when the contracting parties agree to unite in attacking a common