Terms beginning with "L" (359 total)

L. BR. A. 894

—View and delivery. When a right of common is exercisable not over the whole waste, but only in convenient places indicated from time to time by the lord of the manor or his bailiff, it is said to be exercisable after ...

L. Cas

271.—Beneficial estate. An estate in expectancy is one where the right to the ossession is postponed to a future period, and is “‘beneficial” where the devisee takes solely for his own use or benefit, and not as ...

L. Ed

420. 287.—Act of parliament. A statute, law, or edict, made by the British sovereign, with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, in parliament assembled. Acts of parliament form ...

L. R. 2 P. C. 106

AUDIENCE. In international law. A hearing; interview with the sovereign. The king or other chief executive of a country grants an audience to a foreign minister who comes to him duly accredited; and, after the recall of ...

L. R. A. (WN

8.) 420.—Eleetive franchise. The right of suffrage; the right or privilege of voting in public elections,—Franchise tax. A tax on the franchise of a corporation, that is, on the right and privilege of carrying on bus...

L. R. A. 360

—Dismissal ed. A dismissal entered in accordance with the agreement of the parties, amounting ‘to an adjudication of the matters in dispute between them or to a renunciation by the complainant of the claims asserted ...

L. R. A. 534

Debt not in the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1290. State v. Faran. 24 Ohio St. 541; People v. Carpenter, 31 App. Div. 608, 52 N. Y. Supp. 781.

L. R. A. 742

—Finding of fact. A determination of a fact by the court, such fact being averred by one party and denied by the other, and the determination being based on the evidence in the case; also the answer of the jury to a sp...

L. R.A

78. 119. 369.—Compulsory monsuit. An involuntary nonsuit. See Nonsurt.—Compualsory ueymnent: One not made voluntarily, but exacted by duress, threats, the enforcement of legal process, or unconscionably taking adva...

L. ZL

(also IL. Lat.) and kL. F. (also L,. Fr.) are used as abbreviations of the terms “Law Latin” and “Law French.” An abbreviation for “Law Reports.”

LA

Fr. The. The definite article in the feminine gender. Occurs in some legal terms and phrases; as “Jermcs de la Ley,” terms of the law. Fr. There. An adverb of time and place ; whereas. -

La. Ann

991. 45. 598, 7 South. 125; State v. Bryan, 112 N. C. 848, 16 S. E. 909. 20.—Fiscal officers. Those cha with the collection and distribution of public money, as, the money of a state, county, or municipal corporatio...

La. Ann, 1411,'27 South

796. res Public lands of a state set apes by the state (or by congress in a territory) to create, by the proceeds of their sale, a fund for the establishment and maintenance of public schools.—Seated land. Land that is...

LABOR

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. It...

LABOR A JURY

La ley voct plus tost suffer un mischeife que un inconvenience. The law will sooner suffer a mischief than an inconvenience. Litt. § 231. It is holden for an inconvenience that any of the maxims of the law should be bro...

LABORARIIS

LABORARIIS. An ancient writ against persons who refused to serve and do labor, and who had no means of living; or against such as, having served in the winter, refused to serve in the summer. Reg. Orig. 189.

Lacy v. Telerook Ala

90; Haddock v. Woods, 46 Iowa, 433.—Current money. The currency of the country; whatever is intended to and does actually circulate as currency; every species of coin or currency. Miller v McKinney, 5 Lea (Tenn.) 96. I...

LADING, BILL OF. See BIL

LADY. In English law. The title be longing to the wife of a peer, and (by cour tesy) the wife of a baronet or knight, and als0 to any woman, married or sole, whose father was a nobleman of a rank not lower than that of e...