Ledsinger v. Burke, 113 Ga
74, 38 S. E. 313; Brown v. Cairns, 107 Iowa, 727, 77 N. W. 478: Lewis v. 'Angermiller, 89 Hun, 65, 35 N. Y¥. Supp 69.—Surrender of copyhold. The mode of conveying or transferring copybold property from one person to a...
Terms beginning with "L" (359 total)
Lee v. Balcom, 9 Colo
216, 11 Pac. 74. See
Leesburg vy. Putnam, 108 Ga
110, 2) 8. EK. 602; Morrison v. Com, 7 Dana (Ky.) 219;
Leg
p. 369, c. 6 § 7; 1 Story, Eq. Jur: § 555; 2 Bi. Comm. 512, 513: Brown v. Brown; 79 Va. 648; Neistrath’s Estate, 66 Cal.’ 330; 5 Pac. 507. In equity, when equitable assets are insufficient to satisfy fully all the ...
Leg. Obs
75; Mathis v. Mathis, 18 N. J. Law. 6.—Residuary legacy. A bequest of all the testator’s personal estate not otherwise effectually disposed of by his will; a bequest of “all the rest, residue, and remainder’’ o...
LEGACY
DEMPSTER. In Scotch law. A dooms-
LEGACY :708
legacy is payable, the bequest is sald to. lapse, as it then falls into the residuary fund of the estate.—-Miodal legacy. A bequest accompanied by directions as to the mode or manner in which it shall be applied for th...
LEGAL
1. Conforming to the law; ac cording to law; required or permitted by law; not forbidden or discountenanced by law; good and effectual in law.
LEGALIS HOMO
Lat. A lawful man; a person who stands rectus in curia; a person not outlawed, excommunicated, or infamous. It occurs in the phrase, “probi et legales homines,” (good and lawful men, coipetent jurors,) and “legalit...
LEGANTINE CONSTITUTIONS. ‘The
name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods, held under legates from Pope Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Henry III., about the years 1220 and 1268. 1 BL Comm. 83.
LEGARE
Lat. In the civil and old English law. To bequeath; to leave or give by will; to give in anticipation of death. In Scoteh phrase, to legate.
LEGATUM
Lat. Im the civil law. A legacy ; a gift left by a deceased person, to be executed by the heir. Inst. 2, 20, 1.
LEGEM
Lat. -Accusative of lez, law.
LEGES
Lat. Laws. At Rome, the legee (the decrees of the people in a strict sense) were laws which were proposed by a magistrate presiding in the senate, and adopted by the Roman people in the comitia centuriaia. Mackeld. Rom. ...
LEGES NATURZ
for their adoption. Heinecc. Ant. Rom. lib. 1, tit, 2—Legem habere. To be capable of giving evidence upon oath. Witnesses who had been convicted of crime were incapable of giving evidence, until 6 & 7 Vict. c. 85.—.L...
LEGES NON VERBIS 710 LEGITIME IMPERANTI
_ Leges non verbis, sed rebus, sunt im- 938; geno i. 7 pane ca ae: rity rated posite. Laws are imposed, not on words, Y- veston, ex. 1, 75 05 e ; v. American F. Ins. Co., 166 Pa. 72, "30 Ath but things. 10 Coke, 101; Bra...
LEGIBUS SOLUTUS
Lat. Released from the laws; not bound by the lawa. An expression applied in the Roman civil law to ‘tthe emperor. Calvin.
LEGISPERITUS
Lat. A person skiiled or learned in the law; a eiadia! or advocate. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 1.
LEGITIME
Lat. In the ctvil law. That portion of a parent’s estate of which he cannot disinherit his children without a legal cause. Miller v. Miller, 105 La. 257, 29
LEGITIMI HZREDES
Lat. In Roman law. Legitimate heirs; the agnate relations of the estate-leaver; so called because the inheritance was given to them by a law of the Twelve Tables.
Legnard, 70 Pa
192; Stewart v. Bedell, 79
LEGO
Lat. In Roman law. I bequeath.
Leman v. Insurance Co., 46 La. Ann
1189, 15 South. 888, 24 L. R. A. 589, 49 Am. St.
Lentz (D. C,) 97 Fed
487; Nash v. Farrington, 4 Allen (Mass.) 157; State v. Angelo, 71 N. H. 224, 51 Atl. 905.
Leo
(or Leon.). Leonard’s English King’ } ‘Bench Reports.
Leon
295. 243. Every grant of our lord the king ought to be taken strictly against our lord the king, when it can be understood in two ways.
LEONINA SOOCIETAS
Lat. An attempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits. This was a void partnership in Roman law; and, apparently, it would also be void as a partnership in English...
LESION
Fr. Damage; injury; detriment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law.
LEST
Fr. In French maritime law.
LESTAGIUM
LESTAGIUM. Lastage or lestage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Cowell.
Lester Supp
or Lest.& But. Lester & ‘Butler’s Supplement to Lester’s Georgia Re-
LETTER
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 letters of the Englis...
LETTRE
Fr. In French law. A letter. It is used, like our English “letter,” for a formal instrument giving authority.
LEVANDZ NAVIS CAUSA
Lat. For the sake of lightening the ship; denotes a purpose of throwing overboard goods, which renders them subjects of general average.
LEVANT ET COUCHANT
L. Fr. Rising up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon land to have lain down to rest and risen up to feed; generally the space of a night and a day, or, at least, one ...
LEVATO VELO
for such punishment. They were also granted by the king for the pu of shielding his favorites or their friends from the consequences of their crimes; and thus were as pernicious in their operation as the protection affor...
LEVIS
Lat. Light; slight; trifling. Levis culpa, slight fault or neglect. Leviasima culpa, the slightest neglect. Levis nota, a slight mark or brand. See Brand V.
LEVYING WAR
be imposed, and also the ascertainment of the amount necessary or desirable to be raised, the amount or rate to be imposed, and the subjects or persons to contribute to the tax. The obligation resulting from a “levy”...
LEW DNESS
and all who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are leagued in the general conspiracy, are considered as engaged in levying war, within the meaning of the constitution. C...
Lewis (C. C.) 114 Fed
963; U. 8S. v. McClellan (D. C.) 127 Fed. 971; Rev. St. U. S. § 5526 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 8715).
Lewis v. State, 16 Conn
34; Reed v. State, 14 Tex. App. 665.
Lewis v..Dally News Co., 81 Md
466, 32 Atl. 246, 29 L. R. A. 59; People v. Most, 36 Misc.
Lewis, 118 Wis
432, 95 N. W. 888; Heller v.
Lewis, 26 Conn
119; Noyes v. Wyckoff, 114
Lewis, 71 Conn
288, 41 Atl. 815; McCrary v.
LEX
Lat. In the Roman law. Law; a law; the law. This term was often used as the synonym of jus, in the sense of a rule of civil conduct authoritatively prescribed for the government of the actions of the members of an organi...
Lex Anglis non patitur absurdum
9 Coke, 22a. The law of England does no
LEX EST DICTAMEN RATIONIS
ance of a contract is to be made.—Lex ordimandi, The same as lez fori, (q. v.)\—Lex rei sitse. The law of the place of situation of the thing.—Lex situs. Modern law Latin for “the law of the place where property ...
LEX EST NORMA RECTI
Lex est norma recti. -Law is a rule of right. Brauch, Princ.
Lex favet doti. Jenk. Cent
50. The law favors dower.