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In mining law. This term, as used in the mining laws of the United States (Rev. St

his representatives and to exercise his jurisdiction in countries where the Roman Catholic Church is established by law.

An officer under the Saxon government, who had jurisdiction over a lath. Enc. Lond. See LATH.

Fr. In French maritime law. Ballast. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 4, art. 1.

In Roman law. A husband’s brother; a wife’s brother-in-law. Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calvin. In old English law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels

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.

An abbreviation which may stand either for “Lord Chancellor,” “Lower Canada,” or “Leading Cases.”

Lat. In old English law. Defect in the weight of money; lack of weight. This word and the verb “lactarc” are used in an assise or statute of the sixth year of