Category: L

The master or owner of a lighter. He is liable as a common carrier.

Lat. In the civil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory. When a judex was in doubt how to decide a case, he represented to the praetor, under oath, sibi non liquere,

In Roman law. The contract of nomen, which was constituted by writing, (seripturd.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re in personam, when a transaction was transferred from the (lay-

In old European law. A kind of servant: one who surrendered himself into another’s power. Spelman. In the civil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea: the coast.

In American land law. The designation of the boundaries of a particular piece of land, either upon record or on the land itself. Mosby v. Carlaud, 1 Bibb. (Ky.) 84. The finding

In old French and Canadian law. A line payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation tine. Steph. Leet 351.

An article is “lost” when the owner has lost the possession or custody of it, in- voluntarily and by any means, but more particularly by accident or his own negligence or forgetfulness,

In Scotch law. A gainer.

Excess and extravagance which was formerly an offense against the public economy, but is not now punishable. Wharton.

The star-chamber. La conscience est la plus changeante des regies. Conscience is the most changeable of rules. Bouv. Diet. La ley favour la vie d’un home. The law favors the life of

In Roman law. The injury sustained by one of the parties to an onerous contract when he had been overreached by the other to the extent of more than one- half of

A fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of some manors. 4 Inst. 206.

In Saxon law. A proprietor of land; lord of the soil. Anc. Inst. Eng.

etc. An ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in Wales. Reg. Orig. 270.

A custom exacted in some fairs and markets to carry things bought whither one will. But it is more accurately taken for the ballast or lading of a ship. Also custom paid

Lat. In Roman law. A class of freedtnen (librrtini) intermediate between the two other classcs of freed- men called, respectively, “Circs I’nmani” and “Dcditicii.” Slaves under thirty years of age at the

In English law. An officer of the household of the sovereign, whose business formerly consisted only in composing an ode annually, on tiie sovereign’s birthday, and on the new year; sometimes also,

liament.

Fr. Legality; sufficiency in law. Britt. c. 109.

Lawful mouey of England. 1 Inst. 207.