Category: L

Subjects.

A vessel serving the purpose of a light-house, usually at a place where the latter could not well be built.

Race; progeny ; family, ascending or descending. Lockett v. Lockett, 94 Ky. 289, 22 S. W. 224.

Pertaining to polite learning ; connected with the study or use of books and writings. The word “literary,” having no legal signification, is to be taken in its ordinary and usual meaning.

In Spanish law. Litispendence’. The condition of a suit pending iu a court of justice.

In French law. A lessee, tenant or renter.

The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from one place to another. Cowell.

Lat. A colloquy; talk. In old English law, this term denoted the oral altercations of the parties to a suit, which led to the issue, now called the “pleadings.” It also designated

Lat. In Roman law. A term including everything which a husband or wife, as such, acquires from the estate of the other, either before the marriage. or on agreeing to it. or

Lat. To be outlawed, and have one’s head exposed, like a wolf’s, with a reward to him who should take it. Cowell.

Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three aca- demic degrees in law,

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An Old word for a lawyer. Domesday, I. 189.

in the most general sense, comprehends any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever; as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furzes, and heath. Co. Litt 4a. The word “land” includes not only the

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