Category: L

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

In Scotch law. A gainer.

In old English law.A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, and introduced into England in the reign of Edward III. Pro- hibited by St. 25

An abbreviation which may stand either for “Lord Chancellor,” “Lower Canada,” or “Leading Cases.”

Negligence, consisting in the omission of something which a party might do, and might reasonably be expected to do, towards the vindication or enforcement of his rights. The word is generally the

from the Saxon “lag.” Law; a law.

In English law. A degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in prejudice of the universities. 3 Steph. Comm. 65; 1 Bl. Comm. 381.

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

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

Defunct: existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 190. Formerly ; recently; lately

In old English practice. A writ which issued In personal actions, on the return of non est inventus to a bill of Mid dlesex ; so called from the emphatic word In

Pieces of gold, coined in 1010, with the king’s head laureated; lieuce the name.

A pasture. Co. Litt. 4b.

In old Scotch criminal law. An offense consisting in slanderous and untrue speeches, to the disdain, reproach, and contempt of the king, his council and proceedings, etc. Bell.

The alloy of money. Spelman.

An embassy; a diplomatic minister and his suite; the persons commis- sioned by one government to exercise diplomatic functions at the court of another, in- cluding the minister, secretaries, attaches, Interpreters, etc.,

Lawful birth; the condition of being born in wedlock; the opposite of illegitimacy or bastardy. Davenport v. Caldwell, 10 S. C. 337; Pratt v. Pratt, 5 Mo. App. 541.

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