JUDICIA
Lat. In Roman law. Judicial proceedings; trials. Judtcia publica, criminal trials. Dig. 48, 1.
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JUDICIO SISTI
Lat. A caution, or security, given in Scotch courts for the defendant to abide judgment within the jurisdic tion. Stim. Law Gloss.
JURISDICTION
offenses; the authority by which judicial officers take cognizance of and decide criminal cases. Ellison y. State, 125 Ind. 492, 24 N. E. 439; In re City of Buffalo, 189 N. Y. 422, 34 N. E. 1103.—Equity jurisdiction. In a general sense, the jurisdi...
JUS ITALICUM
JUS GLADIT. The right of the sword; the executory power of the law; the right, power, or prerogative of punishing for crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 177.
JUSTICES’ COURTS. Inferior
tribunals, not of record, with limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, held by justices of the peace. There are courts so.called in many of the states. See Searl v. Shanks, 9 N. D. 204, 82 N. W. 734; Brownfield v.
Kd
360. 528; Kota v. People, 136 Ill. 655, 27 N. KE. 53: Hogan v. State, 36 Wis. 242.—Malice in fact. Express or actual malice. Railway Co v. Behee, 2 Tex. Civ. App. 107, 21 S. W. 384;
KING’S CHAMBERS 688
per bench.” It. consisted of a chief justice aod three. puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace und supreme coroners of the land. It was u remnant of the aula regis, and was not originally fixed to any cert...
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 “view and delivery.”” El...
L. R. A. 484; U. 8
v. Lewis (C. C.) 111 Fed. 682; Nye v. People, 35 Mich. 16. For the distinction between murder and manslaughter and other forms of homicide, see Homri-
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, 358.
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 asportation, is
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 character. The least number of ...
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 civil law. a sum paid by a ne...
LAUDUM
Lat. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law. Sentence or judgment; dome or doom. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8.
Law, 488, 47 Atl
649.—Public wrongs. Violations of public rights and duties which affect the whole community, considered as a community; crimes and misdemeanors. 3 Bl. Comm. 2; 4 Bl). Comm. 1.—Real wrong. In old English law. An injury to the freehold.
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 another is by means of a surren...
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.—.Legem jubere. In Roman law. To ...
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 afforded by the church to criminals...
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 organized jural society. proves as ...
LIBELLUS
Lat. Im the civil law. A little book. Libellus supplez, a petition, especially to the emperor, all petitions to whom must be in writing. Libellum rescribere, to mark on such petition the answer to if Lé- bellum agere, to assist or counsel the empero...
LIBERAM LEGEM AMITTERE. To
lose one’s free law, (called the villainous judgment,) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted, houses razed, trees rooted up, and one’s body committed t...
LIBERTY
1. Freedom; exemption from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the individual without restraint, coercion, or control from other person...
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 pending elsewhere. The fact tha...
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.
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. 120; 1 Crabb. Real Prop. p. 130,...
LOCK-UP HOUSE
porarily as a prison.
Lockwood, 21 KR. I. 556, 45 Atl
546.—Nonjoinder. The omission to join some person as arty to a suit, whether as plaintiff or defendant, who ought to have been so joined, according to the rules of pleading and practice.
LOCUS
Lat. A place; the place where a thing is done. . 109.—Loous im guo. The place in which. The place in which the cause of action arose, or where anything is alleged, in pleadings, to have been done. The phrase is most frequently used in actions of t...
LUCRATIVE
Lubricum lingus non facile trahendum est in pomam. Cro. Car. 117. A slip of the tongue ought not lightly to be subjected to punishment. and in excess of the expenses incidenta] to the office. See State v. Kirk, 44 Ind. 405, 15 Am.
LUORI CAUSA
Lat. In criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny, the phrase meaning “for the sake of lucre” or gain. State v. Ryan, 12 Nev. 403, 28 Am.