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Lawful mouey of England. 1 Inst. 207.

The act of giving or enacting laws. State v. Hyde, 121 Ind. 20, 22 N. E. 044.

A place where hares are kept Mon. Angl. t. 2, p. 1035.

Lat For the sake of lightening the ship; denotes a purpose of throwing overboard goods, which renders them subjects of general average.

The complainant or party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff in actions at law.

Privileged districts exempt from the sheriff’s jurisdiction; as, “gaol liberties” or “jail liberties.” See GAOL.Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redignnt; sed leges Angliae semel manumissum semper liberum jndieant. Co. Litt.

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.

Anything appended to a larger writing, as a codicil; a narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writ, in order to hold the appending seal. In the vernacular,

f., when a vendor had not received half the value of property sold, or the purchaser had paid more than double value. Colq. Rom. Civil Law,

In English law. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, including all the nation, except the clergy, the army, aud