LAMBARD’S ARCHAIONOMIA. A
work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo- Saxon laws, those of William the Conqueror, and of Henry I.
Terms beginning with "L" (359 total)
LANA
Lat. In the civil law. Wool.
LANCASTER
' LAIS GENTS. L. Fr. Lay people; a jury. LAITY. In English law. Those persons
Lancaster County, 65 Fed
191, 12 C. ©O. A. 566.—Road tax. <A tax for the maintenance and repair of the public roads within the par ticular jurisdiction, levied either in money or in the form of so many days’ labor on the public roads exacte...
LANCETI
LANCETI. In feudal law. Vassals who were obliged to work for their lord one day in the week, from Michaelmas to autumn, either with fork, spade, or flail, at the lord's option. Spelman.
LAND
act, 1875, a certificate is given to the registered proprietor, and similarly upon every transfer of registered land. is registration supersedes the necessity of any further registration in the register counties. Sweet. ...
Land Co
85 Minn. 408, 29 N. W. 121.—Taxdeed. The conveyance given upon a sale 0 lands made for non-payment of taxes; the deed whereby the officer of the law undertakes to convey the title of the proprietor to the purchaser at ...
Land Office Com’r, 87 Mich
353, 49 N. W. 600,) and to the fractional paper currency issued by the United States during the period of the Civil War.
LANDA
a lawnd or lawn. Cowell;
LANDAGENDE, LANDHLAFORD, or
LANDRICA. In Saxon law. A proprietor of land; lord of the soil. Anc. Inst. Eng.
Landl. & Ten
232; Zimmerman v. Shreeve, 59 Md. 363; Lawrence v. Hunter, 9 Watts (Pa.) 78; Livingston v. Reynolds, 2 Hill (N.
LANDLOCKED
da necesstias,” (g. v.;) quasi land ree Cowell. .
Langan (C. C.) 123 Fed
134; Steere v. Field, 22 Fed. Cas. 1221.
Langdon v. New York, 988 N. y
151; Dubuque v. Stout, 32 Iowa, 47;
LANGUIDUS
(Lat. Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant, whom he has taken by virtue of process, is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger nis life or. health. 3 Obit. Pr. 249, ...
Lansing, 57 Barb
(N. Y.) 427; Davis v.
Larceny is
the taking of personal property,
Larceny is the felonious stealing, taking
car- Trying, leading, or driving away the personal property: of another. Pen. Code Cal. § 484. - —Constructive larceny. One where the felonious intent ‘to appropriate the goods to hie Own :yse,: at the time of the a...
LARGE
L. Fr. Broad; the opposite of “estreyte,” strait or strict. Pures et larges.
Large, 319, 589; Miller v. U. S., 11 Wall
268, 20 L. Ed. 1385; Semmes v. U. S., 91 U. 8. 27, 23 IL. Ed. 193.—Confiscation cases. The name given to a group of fifteen cases decided by the United States supreme court in 1868S, on the validity and construction of...
LAS PARTIDAS
LAS PARTIDAS. In Spanish law. The
Las Partidas, pt
6, tit. 3, 1, 2. 3, tit. 10, 1. 3. 3, tit. 32, 1. 21; White, 3, tit. 5, 1. 1.
Lat
(You go to the sheriff.) A writ formerly directed to the coroners of a county in England, commanding them to go to the sheriff, where the latter had suppressed and neglected to return a writ of pone, and to deliver a wri...
Lat. Max
45. 61. ‘ 57. ; 73. 50. _ 227. 384. 486. 606.
LATA CULPA
Lat. In the law of bailment. Gross fault or neglect; extreme negligence or carelessness, (nimia negligentia.)
Latch
Latch’s English King’s Sein Re-
LATENS
Lat. Latent; hidden; not ap parent. See AMBIGUITAS. LATENT. Hidden; concealed; that does
LATERAL SUPPORT
dies is so called. Huse v. Brown, 8 Me. 169;
LATERARE
beneath. Stevenson v. Wallace, 27 Grat. (Ya.) 77; Farrand v. Marshall, 19 Barb. (N. ¥.) 880; Foley v. Wyeth, 2 Allen (Mass.) 131, 79 Am. Dec. 771; 12 Amer. & Eng. Enc: Law, 983.
Lath
Lathrop’s Reports, vols. 115-148 Massachusetts. * Lauder. (Lauder of) YFountainhall’s Scotch Session Cases. :
LATIFUNDIUM
Lat. In the civil law. Great or large possessions; a great or large field; a common. A great estate made up of smaller ones, (fundis,) which began to be common in the latter times of the empire.
Latin dominium, (qg
v.) Dominio alto, eminent domain; dominio directo, immediate ownership; dominio utile, beneficial ownership. Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 556.
LATITATIO
Lat. In the civil law and old English practice. <A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract. fol. 126.
LATOR
Lat. In the civil law. A bearer; a méssenger. Also a maker or giver of laws.
LATRO
Lat. In the civil and. old English law. A robber. Dig. 50, 16, 118; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 88, §1. A thief.
Laud
c. 5. A maxim of the common law of England, now superseded by the statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 106, § 9. See Broom, Max. 530.
LAUDARE
Lat. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one’s title or authority. Calvin.
LAUDATIO
Lat. In Roman law. Testimony delivered in court concerning an accused person’s good behavior and integrity of life. It resembled the practice which prevails in our trials of calling persons to speak to a prisoner’s c...
LAUDEMIUM
dlesex; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in which it was “testified that the defendant lurke [latitat] and wanders about” in the county. 3 Bl. Comm. 286. Abolished by St. 2 Wm. IV. c. 39. Lat. In the...
LAUDUM
Lat. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law. Sentence or judgment; dome or doom. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8.
LAUNCH
1. The act of launching a vessel; the movement of a vessel from the land into the water, especially the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
LAUS DEO
Lat. Praise be to God. An
LAW
1. That which is laid down, ordained, or established. A rule or method according to which phenomena or actions coexist or follow each other. human conduct, answering to the Latin “jus ;” as when it is spoken of as a...
LAW ALWAYS CONSTRUETH
Law always construeth things to the best. Wing. Max. p. 720, max. 193.
Law and Equity, vols
8, 9 Modern Reports.
Law Gloss. See Boyd v.. Emmons, 103 Ky
393, 45 &§ W. 864; Tinsley v. Rice, 105 Ga. 285, 81 S. B. 174; Bowen vy. Kirkland, 17 Ter.
Law hateth delays. Wing. Max
p. 674, max. 176; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 71.
Law hateth wrong. Wing. Max
p. 563, max. 146; Finch, Law, b. 1, c 8, no. 62.
Law J. Ch
567; Phenix Jron Foundry v.
Law Rep
74; Clark v. Ellis, 9 Or. 132;