Category: L

Fr. In French law. A letter. It is used, like our English “letter,” for a formal instrument giving authority.

The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice to do, pay, or make good something; legal responsibility. Wood v. Currey, 57 Cal. 209; McElfresh v. Kirkendall, 36 Iowa, 225;

A destroyer of liberty.

Lat To be lawful; to be allowed or permitted by law. Calvin.

Fr. Place; room. It is only used with “in;” in lieu, instead of. Enc. Lond.

1. Windows; openings in the wall of a house for the admission of light. 2. Signal-lamps on board a vessel or at particular points on the coast, required by the navigation laws

It is clear or apparent; it appears. Satis liquet, it sufficiently appears. 1 Strange, 412.

A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones.

See INSURANCE.

In a deed, patent, or other instrument containing a description of land, locative calls are specific calls, descriptions, or marks of location, referring to landmarks, physical objects, or other points by which

A ship’s journal. It contains a minute account of the ship’s course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 312. The part of the log-book relating

In English law. Certain duties which must be paid by those who claim to exercise the elective franchise within certain cities and boroughs, before they are entitled to vote. It is said

Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy. Webster.

The gate into a churchyard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over it to cover the body brought for burial, when it rests underneath. 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