Category: L

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.

A unit in a connected series; anything which serves to connect or bind to- gether the things which precede and follow it. Thus, we speak of a “link iu the chain of

“Ad lit era tit ram po- ncrc” means to put children to school. This liberty was anciently denied to those parents who were servile tenants, without the lord’s consent. The prohibition against

Lat. In the civil law. An obliteration or blot in a will or other instrument. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1.

Lat. In the civil law. Let ting for hire. The term is also used by text- writers upon the law of bailment at common law. In Scotch law It is translated “loca-

Habitation in another’s house; apartments in another’s house, furnished or unfurnished, occupied for habitation ; the occupier being termed a “lodger.”

In insnrance. The injury or damage sustained by the insured in consequence of the happening of one or more of the accidents or misfortunes against which the insurer, in consideration of the