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LEADING COUNSEL

That one of two or more counsel employed on the same side In a cause who has the principal manage- ment of the cause.

LECTRINUM

A pulpit Mon. Angt torn. iii. p. 243. LECTURER

LEGATEE

The person to whom a legacy is given. See LEGACY.

LEGRUITA

In old records. A fine for criminal conversation with a woman.

LESSEE

He to whom a lease is made. He who holds an estate by virtue of a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776.

LEVEE

An embankment or artificial mound of earth constructed along the margin of a river, to confine the stream to its natural channel or prevent inundation or overflow. State v. New Orleans &

LIBERA

A livery or delivery of so much corn or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn, and received some part or small portion of

LIBERUM TENEMENTUM

In real law. Freehold. Frank-tenement. In pleading. A plea of freehold. A plea by the defendant in an action of trespass to real property that the locus in quo is bis freehold,

LIGA

In old European law. A league or confederation. Spelman.

LIMITATION

Restriction or circum- spection; settling an estate or property; a certain time allowed by a statute for litigation. In estates. A limitation, whether made by the express words of the party or

LISTED

Included in a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property.

LITIGIOSO

Span. Litigious; the subject of litigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute iu a pending suit. White v. Gay, 1 Tex. 3SS.

LOADMANAGE

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, In barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, In order that she

LOGOGRAPHUS

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

LOVE-DAY

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.

LUMINA

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

LYNCH LAW

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,

LACERTA

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

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