Category: L

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 Spanish law. An attorney or advocate; particularly, a person admitted to the degree of “Licentiate in Jurisprudence” by any of the literary universities of Spain, and who is thereby authorized to

A resident ambassador.

A structure, usually in the form of a tower, containing signal-lights for the guidance of vessels at night, at dangerous points of a coast, shoals, etc. They are usually erected by government,

Lat. A line; line of descent. See LINE.

According to language; following expression in words. A literal con- struction of a document adheres closely to its words, without making differences for ex- trinsic circumstances; a literal performance of a condition

An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit is going on. LITISPENDENCE A 733 LOAN

In old European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent Spelman.

The pilot conducts the ship up the river or into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by the pilot,

A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands

In medical jurisprudence. Intervals occurring in the mental life of an insane person during which he is completely restored to the use of his reason, or so far restored that he has

In old English law. A silver penny, so called because it was to be coined only at London, (a Londres.) and not at the country mints. Lown. Essay Coins, 17; Cowell.

An abbreviation for “Locus sigilli.” the place of the seal, i. e