Category: L

The old English and Scotch translation of “Icesa majestas,” or high treason. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.

Rising up and lying down. A term applied to cattle. 3 Rl. Comm. 9. The Latin equivalent of “levant et couchant.”

Lat. In the civil law. A little book. Libellus supplex, a petition, especially to the emperor, all petitions to whom must be in writing. Libcllum rcscribere, to mark on such petition the

In old English law. Frank-marriage. Bract, fol. 21.

The former term is applicable when the amount of the damages has been ascertained by the judgment in the action, or when a specific sum of money has been expressly stipulated by

The day prescribed in a bond, mortgage, or defeasible deed for payment of the debt secured thereby, or, in default of payment, the forfeiture of the property mortgaged. But this does not