LEGANTINE CONSTITUTIONS
The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods, held under legates from Pope Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Henry III., about the years 1220
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The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods, held under legates from Pope Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Henry III., about the years 1220
In Scotch law. The children’s share in the father’s movables.
The old English and Scotch translation of “Icesa majestas,” or high treason. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.
Rising up and lying down. A term applied to cattle. 3 Rl. Comm. 9. The Latin equivalent of “levant et couchant.”
Lat. In the civil law. A little book. Libellus supplex, a petition, especially to the emperor, all petitions to whom must be in writing. Libcllum rcscribere, to mark on such petition the
In old English law. Frank-marriage. Bract, fol. 21.
In Spanish law. The offering for sale at public auction of an estate or property held by co-heirs or joint proprietors. which cannot tie divided up without det- riment to the whole.
See COMMISSION OF ARRAY.
A right of cutting fuel in woods; also a tribute or payment due for the same. Jacob.
The act or process of settling or making clear, fixed, and determinate that which before was uncertain or unascertained. As applied to a company, (or sometimes to the affairs of an individual,)
To dispute or contend In form of law; to carry on a suit.
1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king’s tenants in capite or tenants by knight’s service. 2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward
A place used temporarily as a prison.
An unlawful game mentioned iu St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9.
In old English law. A liberty or privilege to take amends for lying with a bondwoman without license.
Lat. In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss.Lucrum facere ex pupilli tutela tutor non debet. A guardian ought not to make money out of the
A person who, by his presence and silence at a transaction which affects his interests, may be fairly supposed to acquiesce in it, if he afterwards propose to disturb the arrangement, is
1. Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends.
In old English law. One of a class between servile and free. Palgrave, 1. 354.
Fr. In French marine law. A pilot Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 3.