Category: L

Sax. In old English law. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman.

Lat. In the civil law. A stone-quarry. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 2.

This word has been held to have “a very large retrospect, as we say ‘lately deceased’ of one dead ten or twenty years.” Per. Cur. 2 Show. 294.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A robber. Dig. 50. 10, 118; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38.

In Spanish law. A new work. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 1.

Among the various cases that are argued and determined in the courts, some, from their important character, have demanded more than usual attention from the judges, and from this circumstance are frequently

In Spanish law. A person appointed by competent authority to read and decipher ancient writings, to the end that they may be presented on the trial of causes as documents entitled to

Lat. In tlxe civil law. One to whom a thing is bequeathed; a legatee or legatary. lust. 2, 20, 2, 4, 5, 10; Bract, fol. 40. In old European law. A legate,

Lat In Roman law. I bequeath. A common term in wills. Dig. 30, 36, 81, et seq.

An inferior officer in forests to take care of the vert and venison therein, etc. Wharton.

Lat. An expression used in the Roman law, and applied to the trial of wreck and salvage. Commentators disagree about the origin of the expression; but all agree that its general meaning

adj. Lat. free; open and accessible, as applied to courts, places, etc.; ot the state or condition of a freeman, as applied to persons.

In old English law. Free socage. Bract, fol. 207; 2 Bl. Comm. 01, 02.

In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a

To raise; to take up. To “lift” a promissory note is to discharge its obligation by paying its amount or substituting another evidence of debt. To “lift the bar” of the statute

A member of the human body. In the phrase “life and limb,” the latter term appears to denote bodily integrity in general; but in the definition of “mayhem” it refers only to

A docket or calendar of causes ready for trial or argument, or of motions ready for hearing.

In Scotch law. The pendency of a suit; it is a tacit legal prohibition of alienation, to the disappointment of an action, or of diligence, the direct object of which is to

An association in the city of London, for the transaction of marine insur- ance, the members of which underwrite each other’s policies. See Durbrow v. Eppens, 05 N. J. Law, 10, 40

Fr. In French marine law. A local pilot whose business was to assist the pilot of the vessel in guiding her course into a harbor, or through a river or channel. Martin