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beneath. Stevenson v. Wallace, 27 Grat. (Va.) 77; Farrand v. Marshall, 19 Barb. (N. Y.) 380; Foley v. Wyeth, 2 Allen (Mass.) .131, 79 Am. Dec. 771; 12 Amer. & Eng. Enc.

Lat. In Roman law. Testimony delivered in court concerning an accused person’s good behavior and integrity of life. It resembled the practice which prevails in our trials of calling persons to speak

A person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel, or solicitor. Any person who, for fee or reward, prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record or other judicial tribunals of

Fr. Legality; the condition of a legalis homo, or lawful man.

The rising water or increase of the sea.

The third part of a freeman’s personal estate, which by the custom of London, in case he had a wife and children. the freeman might always have disposed of by will. Bac.

People; a people; a nation. Spelman

Lastage or lestage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Cowell.

A court formerly existing in the District of Columbia. It was a body charged with the administration of the ministerial and financial duties of Washing ton county. It was charged with the

In Saxon law. Freemen ; the possessors of allodial lands. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5. In the civil law. Children. The term included “grandchildren.”

In Roman law. A weigher or balance-holder. The person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancipation per ws et libram. Inst. 2, 10, 1. Libromm appellatione continentur omnia volumina,

In feudal law. Bound by a feudal tenure; bound iu allegiance to the lord paramount, who owned no superior. In old records. Full; absolute; perfect; pure. Liege widowhood was pure widowhood. Cowell.

A window, or opening in the wall for the admission of light Also a privilege or easement to have light admitted into one’s building by the openings made for | LIGHT-HOUSE 728

In descents. The order or series of persons who have descended one from the other or all from a common ancestor, considered as placed in a line of succession In the order

Letters. A term applied in old English law to various instruments in writing, public and private.

Lat. In the civil law. Ownership, control, or direction of a suit. A fiction of law by which the employment of au attorney or proctor (procurator) in a suit was authorized or

In Scotch law. This name is given to a life-rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life-rent of tierce. 1 Bell. Comm.

This term, as used in the legislation of congress, is applicable to tiny zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes all

A proper lookout on a vessel is some one in a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to communicate with him, and to receive communications from him, and

Adherence to law. Faithfulness to one’s prince or sovereign or to the existing government. Luhricum linguae non facile traken- dum est in poenain. Cro. Car. 117.A slip of the tongue ought not