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LESTAGIUM

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

LEVITICAL DEGREES

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.

LIBERARE

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

LIBRA

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

LICITARE

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

LIFE

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.

LIGULA

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

LIQUIDATING PARTNER

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.

LITERIS OBLIGATIO

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-

LITUS

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.

LOCATION

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

LODS ET VENTES

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.

LOST

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,

LUSIIBOROW

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

LURGULARY

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

LIQUIDATED AND UNLIQUIDATED DAMAGES

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

LAND DAMAGES

A term sometimes applied to the amount of compensation to be paid for land taken under the power of eminent domain or for injury to, or depreciation of, land adjoining that taken.

LAW DAY

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

LEGAL DAY

A juridical day. See fupra. And see HelTner v. Heffner, 48 La. Ann. 10S8, 20 South. 281.

LEGAL DEBTS

Those that are recoverable in a court of common law, as debt on a bill of exchange, a bond, or a simple contract. ltogers v. Daniell, 8 Allen (Mass.) 34S: Guild v.

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