Category: L

In the civil law. The extinguishment of a contract, by which he who was bound becomes free or liberated. Wolff, lust. Nat.

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

A person of deranged or unsound mind; a person whose mental faculties are in the condition called “lunacy,” (q. v.) Lunaticus, qui gaudet in lucidis in- tervallis. He is a lunatic who

(also L. Lat.) and L. F. (also L. Fr.) are used as abbreviations of the terms “Law Latin” and “Law French.”

In Saxon law. A purgation, or mode of trial by which one purged himself of an accusation ; as by oath or ordeal. Spelman. A water-course; a trench or canal for draining

A lawful man; a good and lawful man. A juror. Cowell.

Lands over which there is a right of pasturage by persons other than the owner from about Lammas, or reaping time, until sowing time. Wharton.

In Swedish law. A body of common law, compiled about the thirteenth century, out of the particular customs of every province; being analogous to the common law of England. 1 Bl. Comm.

In the manor of Bradford, in Wilts, the tenants pay to their lord a small yearly rent by this name, which is said to be for liberty to feed their hogs with

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