Category: L

Lastage or lestage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Cowell.

Degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. LEVY v. To raise ; execute; exact; collect; gather; take up; seize.

Lat. In the civil law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calvin. In old English law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels

In old English law. A pound; also a sum of money equal to a pound sterling.

Lat. In Roman law. To offer a price at a sale; to bid; to bid often; to make several bids, one above another. Calvin.

That state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. Webster.

In old English law. A copy, exemplification, or transcript of a court roll or deed. Cowell.

The partner who upon the dissolution or insolvency of the firm, Is appointed to settle its accounts, collect assets, adjust claims, and pay debts. Garretson v. Brown, 185 Pa. 447, 40 Atl.

In Roman law. The contract of nomen, which was constituted by writing, (seripturd.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re in personam, when a transaction was transferred from the (lay-

In old European law. A kind of servant: one who surrendered himself into another’s power. Spelman. In the civil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea: the coast.

In American land law. The designation of the boundaries of a particular piece of land, either upon record or on the land itself. Mosby v. Carlaud, 1 Bibb. (Ky.) 84. The finding

In old French and Canadian law. A line payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation tine. Steph. Leet 351.

An article is “lost” when the owner has lost the possession or custody of it, in- voluntarily and by any means, but more particularly by accident or his own negligence or forgetfulness,

and in excess of the expenses incidental to the oilice. See Slate v. Kirk, 44 Ind. 405. 15 Am. Rep. 230; Dailey v. State. 8 Blackf. (ind.) 330; Crawford v. Dunbar, 52

Casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water. Wharton.

L. This letter, as a Roman numeral, stands for the number “fifty.” It is also used as an abbreviation for “law,” “liber,” (a book,) “lord,” and some other words of which it

In old English law. A fathom. Co. Litt. 4b.

In Saxon law. A betraying of one’s lord or master.

A work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599.

A name formerly given to those who executed justice ou behalf of the German emperors, with regard to the internal policy of the country. It was applied, by way of eminence, to