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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 the confiscation
63, 64.—Leges scripts. In English law. Written laws; stat-
of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. IT.. which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101.—Lay impropriator. In English eccle- Siastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72.—Lay ine vestiture. In ecclesi...
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 English alphabet have a special sign...
Lex scripta si cesset, id custodiri eportet quod moribus et consuctudine inductum est; et, si qua in re hoc defecerit, tunc id quod proximum et consequens ei est; et, si id mon appareat, tanc jus que urbs Romana utitur servari oportet. 7 Coke, 19. If...
Lat. Free; open and ac cessible, as applied to courts, places, etc.; of the state or condition of a freeman, a8 applied to persons.
Free service. Service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called “servitium liberu armorum.” Jacob.
L. Fr. In old pleading. A known place; a place well known and generally taken notice of by those who dwell about it, as a castle, a manor, etc.
(4th Ed.) 747. 75, note; Arthurs, Appeal of, 1 Grant
LITERZ. Letters. A term applied in old English law to various instruments in writing, public and private. ;
.. LFTISPENDENCIA. In Spanish law. Litispendency. The condition of a suit pending in a court of justice.
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
of Charles II.” Mozley & Whitley.—Long quinto, the. An expression used to, denote part second of the year-book which gives reports of cases in 5 Edw. IV.—Long robe. A metaphorical expression designating the practice or profession of the law ; a...
(or Low. Dis.). l§ Lowell’s . United . States District Court Reports.
COMMITTITUR. In practice. An order or minute, setting forth that the person named in it 4 commticd to the custody of the sheriff. framed by the masters or principal clerks of the chancery. Bract. fol. 4136; Crabb, Com. Law, 547, 548.
1-11 Wisconsin;—E. B. Smith's Reports, vols. 21-47 Illi- ‘nois Appeals ;—Smith, Reporter, vols. 7, 12 Heiskell’s Tennessee Reports;— Smith’s Reports, vols. 81-83 Missouri Appeals..
Fr. In old French law. A term said to have arisen from the usurious gains of the Jews and Lombards in their management of the public revenue. Steph.
Fr. Such as used to pack juries, by the nomination of either party in a cause, or other practice. Cowell.
MANIFEST. In maritime law. A sealetter; a written document required to be carried by merchant vessels, containing an account of the cargo, with other particulars, for the facility of the customs officers. See
FORMA. Formal words -introduced at the conclusion of a traverse. Their object is to put the party whose pleading is traversed not only to the proof that the matter of fact denied is, in its general effect, true as alleged, but also that the manner an...
hand,” but this definition is too narrow for its present use. Its meaning has expanded as workmanship and art have advanced, so that now nearly all artificial products of human industry, nearly all such materials as have acquired changed conditions...
502. Obsolete. SIGNING JUDGMENT. Im English
viscounts, and barons. These had anciently duties annexed to their respective honors. They are created either by writ, 4 e, by royal summons to attend the house of peers, or by letters patent, 4 é., by royal grant of any dignity and degree of peerag...
382. —Judgment-book. <A _ book required to “be kept bv the clerk. among the records of the
(or Mason [U.8.]). Mason's Unit ed States Circuit Court Reports.
25-28 Canada Supreme Court.
society, whereof a list was made. Hence those who are admitted to a college or university are said to be “matriculated.” Also a kind of almshouse, which had revenues appropriated to it, and was usually built near the church, whence the name was g...
(or McAl.). McAllister’s United States Circuit Court Reports. ‘' McBride. McBride’s Reports, vol. 1 Missouri. ™
645; Bailey v. Duncan, 2 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 22; Keyser v. School Dist., 35 N. H. 483.
258, e3 Atl, 838; Welsh v. Taylor, 134 565. 94, 28 Atl. 817; Chase v. Sioux City, 86 Iowa, 608, 53 N. W. 383. 472. 128, 48 Am. Rep. 542; Koenig v. Railroad Co., 8 Neb. 380; Long v. Converse, 91 460. 393, 54 Atl. 102; Wletcher v. Holmes, 382 Ind...