Category: L

Lat. A layman. One who is not in holy orders, or not engaged in the ministry of religion.

An open field without wood; a lawud or lawn. Cowell; Blount

(Lat. Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant, whom he has taken by virtue of process, is so dangerously sick that to remove him

In old English law, signifies a burden; also a measure of weight used for certain commodities of the bulkier sort.

An interpreter of Latin.

1. The act of launching a vessel; the movement of a vessel from the land into the water, especially the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. Ilomer

The old law-Freuch words for “the king.”

Gleaning.

Lat. A lawful man ; a person who stands rectus in curia; a person uot outlawed, excommunicated, or infamous. It occurs in the phrase, “probi et legates homines,” (good and lawful men,

In old records. Litigious, and so subjected to a course of law. Cowell. Legis constructio non facit injuriam. Co. Litt. 183. The construction of law does no injury. Legis interpretatio legis vim

A greyhound. Cowell.

Fr. In French law. A letter. It is used, like our English “letter,” for a formal instrument giving authority.

The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice to do, pay, or make good something; legal responsibility. Wood v. Currey, 57 Cal. 209; McElfresh v. Kirkendall, 36 Iowa, 225;

A destroyer of liberty.

The indulgence of the arbitrary will of the individual, without regard to ethics or law, or respect for the rights of others. In this it differs from “liberty;” for the latter term

The person having or owning a lien; one who has a right of lien upon prop- erty of another.

The master or owner of a lighter. He is liable as a common carrier.

Lat. In the civil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory. When a judex was in doubt how to decide a case, he represented to the praetor, under oath, sibi non liquere,

In Roman law. The contract of nomen, which was constituted by writing, (seripturd.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re in personam, when a transaction was transferred from the (lay-

In old European law. A kind of servant: one who surrendered himself into another’s power. Spelman. In the civil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea: the coast.