Category: L

Relating to place; expressive of place; belonging or confined to a particular place. Distinguished from “general,” “personal,” and “transitory.”

Lat. A place; the place where a thing is done.

In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular. In the language of the stock exchange, a broker or speculator

Legal; authorized by or conforming to law. Also faithful in one’s political relations; giving faithful support to one’s prince or sovereign or to the existing government.

Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon.

An abbreviation for “Law Judge;” also for “Law Journal.”

In old records. A ditch or dyke; a furrow for a drain; a gap or blank in writing.

In old English law. A law day; a time of open court; the day of the county court; a Juridical day.

The 1st of August It is one of the Scotch quarter days, aud is what is called a “conventional term.”

lie of whom lands or tenements are hold on. He who, being the owner of an estate in land, has leased the same for a term of years, on a rent reserved,

The king’s lard- erer, or clerk of the kitchen. Cowell.

The right of lateral and subjacent support is that right which the owner of land has to have his land supported by the adjoining land or the soil LATERARE 699

Lat. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one’s title or authority. Calvin. In fendal law. To determine or pass upon judicially. Laudamentum, the finding or award

A vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons iu the courts of law.

Fr. Loyal; that which belongs to the law.

In old English law. A lathe-reeve, or chief officer of a lathe. Spelman.

One who makes a will, and leaves legacies

In ecclesiastical law. The quadragesimal fast; a time of abstinence; the time from Ash-Wednesday to Easter.

Lestage free, or exempt from the duty of paying ballast money. Cowell. LESTAGIUM 712 LETTER

Degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. LEVY v. To raise ; execute; exact; collect; gather; take up; seize.