Category: L

In Spanish law. Litispendence’. The condition of a suit pending iu a court of justice.

In French law. A lessee, tenant or renter.

The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from one place to another. Cowell.

Lat. A colloquy; talk. In old English law, this term denoted the oral altercations of the parties to a suit, which led to the issue, now called the “pleadings.” It also designated

Lat. In Roman law. A term including everything which a husband or wife, as such, acquires from the estate of the other, either before the marriage. or on agreeing to it. or

Lat. To be outlawed, and have one’s head exposed, like a wolf’s, with a reward to him who should take it. 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:

A tax for supplying the church with lights. Anc. Inst. Eng

In Spanish law. An advocate. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 1, c. 1,