Category: L

v. To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees. To slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. To fall or fail.

Lat Latent; hidden ; not apparent. See AMBIGUITAS.

Lat. In the civil law. A bearer ; a messenger. Also a maker or giver of laws.

A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest aud other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they

Where a deed was executed before the levy of a fine of land, for the purpose of specifying to whose use the fine should inure, it was said to “lead” the use.

To give or dispose of by will. “The word ‘leave,’ as applied to the subject- matter, prima facie means a disposition by will.” Thorley v. Thorley, 10 East, 438; Carr v. Effinger,

A bequest or gift of personal property by last will and testament. Browne v. Cogswell, 5 Allen (Mass.) 557; Evans v. Price, US 111. 593, 8 N. E. 854; Probate Court v.

The third part of a freeman’s personal estate, which by the custom of London, in case he had a wife and children. the freeman might always have disposed of by will. Bac.

The making legitimate or lawful that which was not originally so; especially the act of legalizing the status of a bastard.

A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (PX cept it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to

1. One of the arbitrary marks or characters constituting the alphabet, and used in written language as the representatives of sounds or articulations of the human organs of speech. Several of the

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

Lat. Liberty; freedom; a privilege; a franchise.

In Spanish law. An attorney or advocate; particularly, a person admitted to the degree of “Licentiate in Jurisprudence” by any of the literary universities of Spain, and who is thereby authorized to

To subsist; to exist; to be sustainable; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase “an action will uot lie” means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no

To tie or bind. Rraet. fol. 3096. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman.

Enamel. Du Cange.

Lat. A controversy or dispute; a suit or action at law.

A judicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right.

A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act Cong. March. 2, 1708,