Lime Point, 18 Cal
250.—Jura dominii. In old English law. Rights of mixed dominion. The king’s right or power of jurisdiction was so termed. Hale, Anal. § 6.—Jura personarum. Rights of persons; the rights of persuns. Rights which co...
Terms beginning with "L" (359 total)
LIMITATION
LIMB. <A member of the human body. In the phrase “life and limb,” the latter term appears to denote bodily integrity in general; but in the definition of “mayhem” it refers only to those members or parts of the b...
LINARIUM
fiax. plat, where flax is grown.
Lindl. Partn
150, 1187.—Sharo-warrant. share-warrant to bearer is a warrant or certificate under the seal of the company, stating that the bearer of the warrant is entitled to a certain number or amount of fully paid u
Lindsay Irr. Co
v. Mehrtens, 97 Cal. 676, 32 Pac. 802; State v. Henderson, 29 W. Va. 147, 1 S. HE. 225; Peters v. Bourneau, 2
Lindsay, 11 Ill. App
261; Kilgore v. Peo ple, 76 Til. 548.
Line Ry
v. North Carolina R. Co. (C. C.) 123
LINEA
Lat. A line; line of descent. See LINE,
LINEA RECTA SEMPER
Linea recta semper prefertur transwersali. The right line is always preferred to the collateral. Co. Litt. 10; Broom, Max. 529.
LINEA RECTA'EST INDEX
LINE. Im descents. The order or series of persons who have descended one from the other or all from a common ancestor, considered as placed in a line of succession in the order of their birth, the line showing the connec...
Link v. Clemmensa, 7 Blackf
(Ind.) 480: Cincinnati v. Rice, 15 Ohio, 225; Kitel v. State, 38
Linney v. State, 6 Tex
1, 55 Am. Dec. 756. See CANCEL.
LIQUERE
Lat. In the civil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory. When a judex was in doubt how to decide a case, he represented to the preetor, under oath, sébé non liquere, (that it was not clear to him,) and was thereup...
LIS
amount of it has been ascertained—settled—by the agreement of the parties to oe or otherwise. Mitchell v. Addison, 20 Ga. 53. Lat. A controversy or dispute; a suit or action at law. ° —Lis alibi pendens. A suit p...
LISH
BURGH ENGLOYS. Borough English, (g. v.)
Lit
(or Litt.). Littell’s Kentucky Reports ;—Littleton’s English Common Pleas Reports. (or Litt.) Sel. Ca. Kentucky Cases.
LITE PENDENTE
Lat. Pending the suit. Fieta, lib. 2, c. 54, § 23.
LITEM DENUNCIARE
Lat. In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another; particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued in respect to it by a third person, gives notice to his vendor and demands his...
LITEM SUAM FACERE
Lat. To make a suit his own. Where a judez, from partiality or enmity, evidently favored elther of the parties, he was said Htem suam facere. Calvin.
LITERA
Lat. A letter. The letter of
Literally speaking, it
is the price or fare fixed by law for the transportation of the traveling public, with such goods and chattels as they may pl eo them, across a river, bay, or lake. e vy. San Francisco & A, Co., 35 Ca 1686. .
LITERARY
LITERZ. Letters. A term applied in old English law to various instruments in writing, public and private. ;
LITERATE
en his or their part, vested in another person. 2 Amer. Law Reg. 44. And see Keene v.
LITERZ PERVENERINT, SALUTEM
‘To all to whom the present letters shall come, greeting. A form of addregs with which charters and deeds were anciently commenced.
LITIA
Lat. In the civil law. Espousal; betrothal; a reciprocal promise of future marriage.
LITIGARE
Lat. To litigate; to carry ' on a suit, (litem agere,) either as plaintiff or defendant; to claim or dispute by action; to test or try the validity of a claim by action.
LITIS CONTESTATIO
Lat. In the Contestation of suit; the process of contesting a suit by the opposing statements of the respective parties; the process of coming to an issue; the attatinment of an issue; the issue itself.
LITIS DENUNOCIATIO
Lat. In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who is sued for its possession or recovery by a third person, falls back upon his vendor’s covenant of warranty, by giving the latter notice of the a...
LITIS DOMINIUM
Lat. In the civil law. Ownership, control, or direction of a suit. <A fiction of law by which the employment of an attorney or proctor (procurator) in a suit was authorized or justified, he being supposed to become, by t...
LITIS ZESTIMATIO
Lat. The measure of damages. .
LITISPEN DENCE
an action, or of diligence, the direct object of which is to obtain possession, or to acquire the property of a particular subject. The effect of it is analogous to that of inhibition. Bell.
LITISPENDENCIA
.. LFTISPENDENCIA. In Spanish law. Litispendency. The condition of a suit pending in a court of justice.
LITRE
Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints. Webster.
Litt
100a, db; Townsh. Pl. 49. 126aA) are those which relate either to particular persons (personal acts) or to particular places, (local acts.) or which operate only upon specified individuals or their private concerns. 12...
Litt. § 1; 2 Bl. Comm
20. —F'eoffee to uses. A person to whom land
Litt. § 212; Co. Litt
141; 1 Bl. Comm. 76;
Litt. § 481: Co. Litt
280.—Ancient rent. The rent reserved at the time the lease was made, if the building was not then under lease.
Litt. § 560
From a few words or hints the understanding conceives many things.
Litt. § 691; Co. Litt
362d. To make or prove true; to make good or justify a plea.
Little River Land, etc., Co., 109 Tenn
427, 75 8. W. 1122; Phenix v. Emigration Com’rs, 12 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 10; United States
LITURA
Lat. In the civil law. An obliteration or blot in a will or other instrument. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1.
LIVERY
1. In English law. Delivery
Lives Ld. Ch
p. 167; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, e. 9, p. 107. Certain parts of this act‘ are repealed by St. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 125. Whar: ton.
LIVIDEND
ue Woolen Mills Co., 93 Va. 6738, 25 8
Loach, 84 Ala
393. 4 South. 757; In re Sessions’ Estate, 70 Mich. 297, 38 N. W. 249, 14: Am. St. Rep. 500; Smith v. Allen, 32
LOAN
of the guardian’s hands, upon the heir’s attaining the requisite age,—twenty-one for males, sixteen for females. 2 Bl. Comm. 68.—Liveryman. A member of some company in the city of London; also called a “freeman...
LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Loan certificates
(Certificates issued by a clearing-house to the as-
LOCARIOM
LOCARIUM. In old European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent. Spelman.
LOCATIO
lat. In the civil law. Let ting for hire. The term is also used by textwriters upon the law of bailment at common law. In Scotch law it is translated “location.” Bell
LOCK-UP HOUSE
porarily as a prison.