Category: L

An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Alon. Angl. 419.

Tending to excite lust; lewd ; Indecent; obscene; relating to sexual impurity; tending to deprave the morals in respect to sexual relations. See Sweariugen v. U. S., 101 U. S. 440, 10

Lat In the civil law. Great or large possessions; a great or large field; a common. A great estate made up of smaller ones, (fundis,) which began to be common in the

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.

Lat License; l ave; permission.

A qualified right of property which a creditor has in or over specific property of his debtor, as security for the debt or charge or for performance of some act. In every

A small vessel used in loading and unloading ships and steamers. The Mamie (D. C.) 5 Fed. SIS; Reed v. Ingham, 20 Eng. Law & Eq. 107.

That which comes in a line; especially a direct line, as from father to son. Collateral relationship is not called “lineal,” though the expression “collateral line,” is not unusual.

In English ecclesiastical law. one who qualifies himself for holy orders by presenting himself as a person accomplished iu classical learning, etc., not as a graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, etc.

Belonging to the shore, as of seas and great lakes. Webster. Corre- sponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. But “riparian”

To ascertain and fix the position of something, the place of which was be- fore uncertain or not manifest; as to locate the calls in a deed. To decide upon the place

One who occupies hired apartments in another’s house; a tenant of part of another’s house. A tenant, with the right of exclusive possession of a part of a house, the landlord, by