Category: L

To make legal or lawful; to confirm or validate what was before void or unlawful; to add the sanction and authority of law to that which before was without or against law.

Lat. A person skilled or learned in the law; a lawyer or advocate. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 1.

Trees fallen by chance or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 341.

Fr. Rising up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon laud to have lain down to rest and risen up to feed; generally the

A party against whom a libel has been filed In an ecclesiastical court or In admiralty.

1. Freedom; exemption from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the individual

Lat From the verb “licere,” (

L. Fr. In old pleading. A known place; a place well known and generally taken notice of by those who dwell about it, as a castle, a manor, etc. Whishaw; 1 Ld.

A person bound to another by a solemn tie or engagement. Now used to express the relation of a subject to bis sovereign. Lir;na et lapides sub “armorum” ap- pellatione non continentur.

Ascertained; determined ; fixed ; settled; made clear or manifest. Cleared away; paid ; discharged.

Lat. To litigate; to carry on a suit, (litem ayere,) either as plaintiff or defendant; to claim or dispute by action; to test or try the validity of a claim by action.

Maintenance; support.

In the civil and Scotch law. A letter; one who lets; he who, beiug the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. Coggs v. Bernard, 2

A mischievous legislative practice, of embracing in one bill several distinct matters, uone of which, perhaps, could singly obtaiu the assent of the legis- lature, aud then procuring its passage by a

A small tract or parcel of land in a village, town, or city, suitable for building, or for a garden, or other similar uses. See Pilz v. Killingsworth, 20 Or. 432, 26

Lat. In criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny, the phrase meaning “for the sake of lucre” or gain. State v. Ryan,

Sax. In old records. Lief silver or money; a small fine paid by the customary tenant to the lord for leave to plow or sow, etc. Somn. Gavelkind, 27.

In old records. Watery land.

Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual offenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity was checked

A large body of water, contained iu a depression of the earth’s surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Webster. See Jones v. Lee, 77 Mich.