Category: L

See IN Loco PARENTIS.

In Roman law. A public clerk, register, or book-keeper; one LOGS 737

In old English law. The day on which any dispute was amicably settled between neighbors; or a day on which one neighbor helps another without hire. Wharton.

Lat. In the civil law. Lights; windows; openings to obtain light for one’s building.

A term descriptive of the action of unofficial persons, organized bands, or mobs, who seize persons charged with or suspected of crimes, or take them out of the custody of the law,

In old English law. A fathom. Co. Litt. 4b.

In Saxon law. A betraying of one’s lord or master.

A work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599.

In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene.

v. To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees. To slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. To fall or fail.

Hidden ; concealed ; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY.

The prerogative of adjudging and executing thieves; also larceny; theft; a thing stolen.

Law always constrneth things to the best. Wing. Max. p. 720, max. 193. Law constrneth every act to be lawful, when it standeth indifferent whether it shonld be lawful or not. Wing.

A question put or framed in such a form as to suggest the answer sought to be obtained by the person Interrogating. Coogler v. Rhodes, 38 Fla. 240, 21 South. Ill, 50

An instructor ; a reader of lectures; also a clergyman who assists rect- ors, etc., in preaching, etc.

Nuncios, deputies, or extraordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to be LEGATION 709

A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forms of law. Calvin.

He who grants a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776.

That which may be levied. That which is a proper or permissible subject for a levy; as, a “leviable interest” in land. See Bray v. Iiagsdale, 53 Mo. 172.

To lose one’s free law, (called the villainous judgment,) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted,