Category: L

In English law. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, including all the nation, except the clergy, the army, aud

In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or held. Spelman; Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10.

A sort of base coin, formerly current in England. Cowell.

Lat. In the law of bailment. Gross fault or neglect; extreme negligence or carelessness, (nimia negligentia.) Dig. 50, 16, 213, 2. Lata culpa dolo sequiparatur. Gross negligence is equivalent to fraud.

In old English practice. A writ which issued In personal actions, on the return of non est inventus to a bill of Mid dlesex ; so called from the emphatic word In

Pieces of gold, coined in 1010, with the king’s head laureated; lieuce the name.

A pasture. Co. Litt. 4b.

Permission obtained from a court to take some action which, without such permission, would not be allowable; as, to sue a receiver, to file an amended pleading, to plead several pleas. See

To make legal or lawful; to confirm or validate what was before void or unlawful; to add the sanction and authority of law to that which before was without or against law.

Lat. A person skilled or learned in the law; a lawyer or advocate. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 1.

Trees fallen by chance or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 341.

Fr. Rising up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon laud to have lain down to rest and risen up to feed; generally the

A party against whom a libel has been filed In an ecclesiastical court or In admiralty.

1. Freedom; exemption from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the individual

Lat From the verb “licere,” (

L. Fr. In old pleading. A known place; a place well known and generally taken notice of by those who dwell about it, as a castle, a manor, etc. Whishaw; 1 Ld.

A person bound to another by a solemn tie or engagement. Now used to express the relation of a subject to bis sovereign. Lir;na et lapides sub “armorum” ap- pellatione non continentur.

Ascertained; determined ; fixed ; settled; made clear or manifest. Cleared away; paid ; discharged.

Lat. To litigate; to carry on a suit, (litem ayere,) either as plaintiff or defendant; to claim or dispute by action; to test or try the validity of a claim by action.

Maintenance; support.