Category: L

An instructor ; a reader of lectures; also a clergyman who assists rect- ors, etc., in preaching, etc.

Nuncios, deputies, or extraordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to be LEGATION 709

A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forms of law. Calvin.

He who grants a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776.

That which may be levied. That which is a proper or permissible subject for a levy; as, a “leviable interest” in land. See Bray v. Iiagsdale, 53 Mo. 172.

To lose one’s free law, (called the villainous judgment,) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted,

In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particularly that kind which consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philters. Sometimes occurring in the Latinized form liblacum.

To subsist; to exist; to be sustainable; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase “an action will uot lie” means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no

To tie or bind. Rraet. fol. 3096. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman.

Enamel. Du Cange.

Lat. In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another: particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued in respect to it by a

Lat. The measure of damages.

is an agreement by which one person delivers to another a certain quantity of things which are consumed by the use, under the obligation, by the borrower, to return to him as

Lat. Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieuteuant, or representative.

A name given to tbe merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe.

The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 1S9. -Low-water mark. See WATER-MARK.

As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as where several distinct parcels of real estate, or several articles of personal property, are sold together for a “lump”

In Scotch law. The ancient duty of this officer was to carry public messages to foreign states, and it Is still the practice of the heralds to make all royal proclamations at

L. This letter, as a Roman numeral, stands for the number “fifty.” It is also used as an abbreviation for “law,” “liber,” (a book,) “lord,” and some other words of which it

Negligence, consisting in the omission of something which a party might do, and might reasonably be expected to do, towards the vindication or enforcement of his rights. The word is generally the