Category: L

Casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water. Wharton.

The. The definite article in the feminine gender. Occurs in some legal terms and phrases; as “Termes de la Leg,” terms of the law.

In English law. The title belonging to the wife of a peer, and (by courtesy) the wife of a baronet or knight, and also to any woman, married or sole, whose father

A roadway in a wood. Mon. Angl. t 1, p. 483.

poods, they, as well as the patent searchers, are to certify the shipping thereof on the debentures. Enc. Lond.

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical im- port, of a document or instrument, as distinguished from

A kind of forfeiture during the government of the Danes in England. Enc. Loud.

A word used by Lord Coke in the sense of an interpreter. 2 Inst. 515. Supposed to be a corruption of the French “latinier,” or “latiner.” Cowell; Blount.

A kind of offensive weapon, now disused, aud prohibited by 7 Rich. II. c. 13.

The title of a French work on marine insurance, by an unknown author, dating back, probably, to the sixteenth century, and said to have been prepared for the merchants of Rouen. It

A conveyance of lands or tenements to a person for life, for a term of years,  at will, in consideration of a return of rent  some other recompense. The person who so

In old English law. That which may be bequeathed. Cowell.

Lat. Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. An expression applied in the Roman civil law to the emperor. Calvin. Legibus sumptis desinentibus, lege naturae utendum est. When laws imposed

A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (PX cept it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to

The act of awarding a contract; c. p., a construction contract, or contract for carrying the mails.

An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion.

Lat. In Roman law. Freedman. There seems to have been some difference in the use of these two words; the former denoting the manumitted slaves considered in their relations with their former

One who has license to practice any art or faculty.

any debt or d_ity; every such claim or charge remaining a lieu on the property, although not in the possession of the person’ to whom the debt or duty is due. Downer

The business of transferring merchandise to and from vessels by means of lighters; also the compensation or price demanded for such service. Western Transp. Co. v. Hawley, 1 Daly (N. Y.) 327.