Category: L

Making or giving laws; pertaining to the function of law-making or to the process of enactment of laws. See IOvausville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. E. 267, 4 L. R.

In old English law. A fugitive or runaway.

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

An embankment or artificial mound of earth constructed along the margin of a river, to confine the stream to its natural channel or prevent inundation or overflow. State v. New Orleans &

Defamatory; of the nature Of a libel; constituting or involving libel.

Free service. Service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called “servitium liberum armorum.” Jacob. Service not unbecoming the character of a freeman and a soldier to perform ; as

Lat To be lawful; to be allowed or permitted by law. Calvin.

The person having or owning a lien; one who has a right of lien upon prop- erty of another.

The master or owner of a lighter. He is liable as a common carrier.

Lat. In the civil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory. When a judex was in doubt how to decide a case, he represented to the praetor, under oath, sibi non liquere,

According to language; following expression in words. A literal con- struction of a document adheres closely to its words, without making differences for ex- trinsic circumstances; a literal performance of a condition

An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit is going on. LITISPENDENCE A 733 LOAN

In old European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent Spelman.

The pilot conducts the ship up the river or into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by the pilot,

A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands

Adherence to law. Faithfulness to one’s prince or sovereign or to the existing government. Luhricum linguae non facile traken- dum est in poenain. Cro. Car. 117.A slip of the tongue ought not

Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon.

1. Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends.

Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual offenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity was checked

A large body of water, contained iu a depression of the earth’s surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Webster. See Jones v. Lee, 77 Mich.