Category: L

See LIGAN.

A cant term on the stock exchange for a person unable to meet his engagements.

An expression sometimes applied to a piece of laud belonging to one person uud surrounded by land belonging to other persons, so that it cannot be ap- proached except over their laud.

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to

A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between its termini; it is but another name for a branch road, both being a part of the

A second mowing; the aftermath.

Not subject to law ; not controlled by law; not authorized by law; not observing the rules and forms of law. See Arkansas v. Kansas & T. Coal Co. (C. C.) 90

The waste or diminution of a liquid caused by its leaking from the cask, barrel, or other vessel in which it was placed. Also an allowance made to an importer of liquids,

A book of accounts in which a trader enters the names of all persons with whom he has dealings; there being two parallel columns iu each account, one for the entries to

An embassy; a diplomatic minister and his suite; the persons commis- sioned by one government to exercise diplomatic functions at the court of another, in- cluding the minister, secretaries, attaches, Interpreters, etc.,

In old English law. A fugitive or runaway.

A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta. 1. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley.

Lat. Light; slight; trifling. Levis culpa, slight fault or neglect. Levis- sima culpa, the slightest neglect. Levis no- ta, a slight mark or brand. See Rrand v. Schenectady & T. R. Co.,

In old English law. Livery; money paid for the delivery or use of a thing. In old Scotch law. Livery; a fee given to a servant or officer. Skene. Money, meat, driuk,

A portion of ground containing four oxgangs, and every oxgang fourteen acres. Cowell. This is the same with what in Scotland was called “pound- land” of old extent Wharton.

An old form of “lieutenant,” and still retained as the vulgar pro- nunciation of the word.

Allegiance; the faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government. Also, derivatively, the territory of a state or sovereignty.

An inn of court. See INNS OF COURT.

Lat. A letter. The letter of a law, as distinguished from its spirit. See LETTER.

Lat. In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who is sued for ils possession or recovery by a third person, falls back upon his vendor’s covenant of