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A division or district peculiar to the county of Kent. Spelman.

A work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo- Saxon laws, those of William the Conqueror, and of Henry I.

A name formerly given to those who executed justice ou behalf of the German emperors, with regard to the internal policy of the country. It was applied, by way of eminence, to

A marble stone about twelve feet long and three feet broad, placed at the upper end of Westminster Ilull, where was likewise a marble chair erected on the middle thereof, in which

Lat Latent; hidden ; not apparent. See AMBIGUITAS.

The act of robbing; a depredation.

1. That which is laid down, ordained, or established. A rule or method according to which phenomena or actions coexist or follow each other. 2. A system of principles and rules of

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

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

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

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

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.

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 &

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

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,

In Roman law. A bidder at a sale.

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

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

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

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.