Category: L

Lat. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law. Sentence or judgment ; dome or doom. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8.

A post- house, or public hospital for persons affected with the more dangerous forms of contagious diseases; a quarantine station for vessels coming from countries where such diseases are prevaleut.

Possessing learning; erudite; versed in the law. In statutes prescribing the qualifications of judges, “learned in the law” designates one who has received a regular legal education, the almost invariable evidence of

The alloy of money. Spelman.

Lat. Laws. At Rome, the leges (the decrees of the people in a strict sense) were laws which were proposed by a magistrate presiding in the senate, and adopted by the Roman

Lat. An attempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits. This was a void partnership in Roman law; and, apparently, it

1. One of the arbitrary marks or characters constituting the alphabet, and used in written language as the representatives of sounds or articulations of the human organs of speech. Several of the

Lex scripta si cesset, id custodiri oportet quod moribus et consuetudine inductum est; et, si qua in re hoc de- fecerit, tunc id quod proxiwuin et con- sequens ei est; et, si

An ancient writ whereby the king commanded the justices in eyre to admit of an attorney for the defense of another’s liberty. Reg. Orig. 19.

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

and in excess of the expenses incidental to the oilice. See Slate v. Kirk, 44 Ind. 405. 15 Am. Rep. 230; Dailey v. State. 8 Blackf. (ind.) 330; Crawford v. Dunbar, 52

In old English law.A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, and introduced into England in the reign of Edward III. Pro- hibited by St. 25