Category: L

The. The definite article in the feminine gender. Occurs in some legal terms and phrases; as “Termes de la Leg,” terms of the law.

In English law. The title belonging to the wife of a peer, and (by courtesy) the wife of a baronet or knight, and also to any woman, married or sole, whose father

A roadway in a wood. Mon. Angl. t 1, p. 483.

poods, they, as well as the patent searchers, are to certify the shipping thereof on the debentures. Enc. Lond.

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical im- port, of a document or instrument, as distinguished from

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

The indulgence of the arbitrary will of the individual, without regard to ethics or law, or respect for the rights of others. In this it differs from “liberty;” for the latter term

The person having or owning a lien; one who has a right of lien upon prop- erty of another.

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,