Category: L

The act of stoning a person to death.

Defunct: existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 190. Formerly ; recently; lately

Lat. In the civil law. A bearer ; a messenger. Also a maker or giver of laws.

A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest aud other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they

Where a deed was executed before the levy of a fine of land, for the purpose of specifying to whose use the fine should inure, it was said to “lead” the use.

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

Lat. In the civil and old English law. To bequeath ; to leave or give by will; to give in anticipation of death. In Scotch phrase, to legate.

v. To make lawful; to confer legitimacy; to place a child born before marriage on the footing of those born in lawful wedlock. McICamie v. Baskerville, 86 Tenn. 459, 7 S. W.

Fr. Damage; injury; detriment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in

Lat. A writ of execution directing the sheriff to cause to be made of the lands and chattels of the judgment debtor the sum recovered by the judgment. Pentland v. Kelly, 6

Defamatory; of the nature Of a libel; constituting or involving libel.

Free service. Service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called “servitium liberum armorum.” Jacob. Service not unbecoming the character of a freeman and a soldier to perform ; as

Lat. In Roman law. To offer a price at a sale; to bid; to bid often; to make several bids, one above another. Calvin.

That state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. Webster.

In old English law. A copy, exemplification, or transcript of a court roll or deed. Cowell.

This term, when used in statutes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or intoxicating liquors. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 80 N.

A judicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right.

A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act Cong. March. 2, 1708,

An oflicer in the Isle of Man, to execute the orders of the governor, much like our under-sheriff. Wharton.

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes both the process itself of proceeding from known truths to