Category: L

In feudal law. Vassals who were obliged to work for their lord one day In the week, from Michaelmas to autumn, either with fork, spade, or flail, at the lord’s option. Spelman.

A lord of a manor. 1 Inst. 5.

A native Indian sailor; the term is also applied to tent pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and others.

The name of an ancient civil division in England, intermediate between the county or shire and the hundred. Said to be the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was

In Spanish law. The tax paid by the possessor of land held by quit- rent or emphyteusis to the owner of the estate, when the tenant alienates his right in the property.

A place for dung or soil.

See BISSEXTILE.

Meetings which were appointed for the nomination or election of ecclesiastic- al officers in Scotland. Cowell.

Lat. Accusative of lex, law. Occurring in various legal phrases, as follows:

A tax for supplying the church with lights. Anc. Inst. Eng

In Spanish law. An advocate. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 1, c. 1,

proposition of the tribune C. Aquilius Gallus, A. U. C. 672, regulating the compensation to be made for that kind of damage called “injurious,” in the cases of killing or wounding the

A writ lying for a citizen or burgess, impleaded contrary to his liberty, to have his privilege allowed. Reg. Orig. 202. LIBERTATIBUS EXIGENDIS 722 LIBERTY

In the law of contracts. A permission, accorded by a competent authority, conferring the right to do some act which without such authorization would be illegal, or would be a trespass or

Subjects.

A vessel serving the purpose of a light-house, usually at a place where the latter could not well be built.

Race; progeny ; family, ascending or descending. Lockett v. Lockett, 94 Ky. 289, 22 S. W. 224.

Pertaining to polite learning ; connected with the study or use of books and writings. The word “literary,” having no legal signification, is to be taken in its ordinary and usual meaning.

In Spanish law. Litispendence’. The condition of a suit pending iu a court of justice.

In French law. A lessee, tenant or renter.