Category: L

In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene.

v. To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees. To slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. To fall or fail.

Hidden ; concealed ; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY.

The prerogative of adjudging and executing thieves; also larceny; theft; a thing stolen.

Law always constrneth things to the best. Wing. Max. p. 720, max. 193. Law constrneth every act to be lawful, when it standeth indifferent whether it shonld be lawful or not. Wing.

A question put or framed in such a form as to suggest the answer sought to be obtained by the person Interrogating. Coogler v. Rhodes, 38 Fla. 240, 21 South. Ill, 50

An instructor ; a reader of lectures; also a clergyman who assists rect- ors, etc., in preaching, etc.

Nuncios, deputies, or extraordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to be LEGATION 709

A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forms of law. Calvin.

He who grants a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776.

That which may be levied. That which is a proper or permissible subject for a levy; as, a “leviable interest” in land. See Bray v. Iiagsdale, 53 Mo. 172.

To lose one’s free law, (called the villainous judgment,) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted,

In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particularly that kind which consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philters. Sometimes occurring in the Latinized form liblacum.

An ancient formality by which bargains were completed.

Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea in storms or

Restricted; bounded; prescribed. Confined within positive bounds; restricted in duration, extent, or scope.

This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. St. Vt. 538.

That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense, “litigious” signifies fond of litigation; prone to engage in suits.

A bailment without reward ; consisting of the delivery of an article by the owner to another person, to be used by the latter gratuitously, and returned either in specie or in

The act of giving place.