Category: L

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.

The reduplicated form of the abbreviation “L.” for “law,” used as a plural. It is generally used in citing old collections of statute law; as “LL. Hen. I.”

A term of maritime law, applied to a vessel which is freighted with a cargo which is neither in casks, boxes, bales, nor cases, but lies loose in the hold, being defended

In old English law. Law; also used to express the territory or district in which a particular law was in force, as Dena lagu. Mercna lagu, etc.

In feudal law. Vassals who were obliged to work for their lord one day In the week, from Michaelmas to autumn, either with fork, spade, or flail, at the lord’s option. Spelman.

A lord of a manor. 1 Inst. 5.

A native Indian sailor; the term is also applied to tent pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and others.

The name of an ancient civil division in England, intermediate between the county or shire and the hundred. Said to be the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was

In Spanish law. The tax paid by the possessor of land held by quit- rent or emphyteusis to the owner of the estate, when the tenant alienates his right in the property.

A place for dung or soil.

See BISSEXTILE.

Meetings which were appointed for the nomination or election of ecclesiastic- al officers in Scotland. Cowell.

Lat. Accusative of lex, law. Occurring in various legal phrases, as follows: