A Dictionary of Law

A net, gin, or snare.

Anything appended to a larger writing, as a codicil; a narrow slip of paper or parehment affixed to a deed or writ, in order to hold the appending seal. In the vernacular, the word

Imoldrecords. Watery land,

Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accom

In old practice. To tainper with a jury; to endeavor to iniluence them in their verdict, or their verdict generally.

Anancient writagainst persons who refused to serve and do labor, and who had no means of living; or against such as, having served in the winter, refused to serve in thesummer. Reg

STATUTES OF. In English law. These are the statutes 23 Edw. Iil., 12 Rich. I., 5 Eliz. c. 4, and 26 & 27 Viet. c. 125, making various regulations as to laborers, servants, apprenti

A measure of land equal to one pole. This term is widely used in Cornwall.

In old English law. A futhom. Co. Litt. 4.

The star-chamber. La conscience est la plus changeante des régles. Couscicnce is the most changeable of rules. Bouy. Dict. La ley favour la vie d’un home. The law favors the life o

Lat. In old English law. Defect in the weight of money; /aeck of weight. This word and the verb “lactare” are used in an assise or statute of the sixth year of King John. Spelman,

In Saxon law. A purgation, or mode of trial by which one purged himself of An accusation; as by oath or ordeal. Spelman. A water-course; a trench or canal for draining marshy groun

In English law. The title belonging to the wife of a peer, and {by courtesy) the wife of a baronet or knight, and also to any woman, married or sole, whose father was a nobleman of

In English law. The court of a lady of the manor.

The 25th of March, the feast of the Annunication of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In parts of Ireland, however, they so designate the 15th of August, the festival of the Assumption of t

The style of an officer of the English house of commons, whose duty was to secure a suitable provision for the wife, when her husband soughta divorce by special act of parliament.

In Saxon law. <A betraying of one’s lord or master.

Lat. In the civil law. A stone-quarry. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 2.

L. Lat., from the Saxon “lag.” Law; a law.

See Liaan.

In old English law. <A law day; a time of open court; the day of the county court; a juridical day.

A lawful man; a good and lawful man. A juror. Cowell.

Lat. Inold English law. A measure of ale. Feta, lib.2, ¢. 11. Said to consist of six sextaries. Cowell.

Inold English law. Law; also used to express the territory or district in which a particular law was in force, as Dena lagu, Merena lagu, etc.

<Abreach of law. Cowell, A mulct for an offense, viz., twelve “ores.”

or LAGEMANNUS. An old word for a lawyer. Domesday, I. 189.

A roadway in a wood. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 483.

A layman. One who is not fn holy orders, or not engaged in the ministry of religion.

or LAIRESITE. A fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of some manors. 4 Inst. 206.

In Englishlaw. Those persons whodo not make a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, including all the nation, except the clergy, the army, and navy, an

A large body of water, contained in a depression of the earth’s surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area, Webster. The fact that there is a current f

Fr. In French marine law. <A pilot. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 3.

A sheop, ram, or ewe under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216.

A work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo- Saxon laws, those of William the Conqueror, and of Henry I.

A work upon the ollice of a justice of the peacs, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599.

In English law. A degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in prejudice of the universities. 3 Steph. Comm. 65; 1 Bl, Comm. 381..

A cant term on the stock exchange fora person unable to meet his engagements.

The lst of August. It is one of the Scotch quarter days, and is what is called a “conventional term.”

Lands over which there is aright of pasturage by persons other than the owner from about Lammas, or reaping time, until sowing time. Wharton.

Lat. In the civil law. Wool, See Dig. 32, 60, 70, 88..

A county of England, erected into a county palatine in the reign of Edward III., but now vested in the crown.

Infendallaw. Yassals 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.

A piece of land surrounded by

An open field without wood; a lawnd or lawn. Cowell; Blount.

LANDHLAFORD, or LANDRICA. In Saxon law. A pro prietor of land; lord of the soil. Anc. Insi. Eng.

In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or held. Spelman; Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10,

In Americanlaw. A court formerly existing in St. Louis, Mo., having a limited territorial jurisdiction over actions concerning real property, and suits for dower, partition, etc.

Inold Englishlaw. A diteh or trench for conveying water from marshy grounds. Spelman.

Consisting in real estate or land; having an estate in land.

The court whieh deals with the transfer of land and the creation of title thereto in Ireland.

Any person having an estate in lands, whether highly improved or not. 10 La. Ann. 677,

A landlord; a lord of the soil.

Sax. Inold English Jaw, A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman.

A name formerly given to those who executed justice on behalf of the German emperors, with regard to the internal policy of the country. It was applied, by way of eminence, to thos

In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene,

A place on a river or other navigable water for lading and unlading goods, or for the reception and delivery of passengers; the terminus of a road on a river or other navigable wat

In Saxon law, Servfees and duties laid upon all that held land, ineluding the three obligations called “trizoda necessitus,” (gy. v.,) quasi land rights. Cowell.

An expression sometimes applied to a piece of land belonging to one person and surrounded by land belonging to other persons, so that {t cannot be approuched except over their land

Heof whom lands or tenements are holden. He who, being the owner of an estate in land, has leased the same for a term of years, on a rent reserved, to anple of the land belongs to

A phrase used to denote the familiar legal relation existing between lessor and lessee of real estate, The relation is contractual, and is constituted by a lease (or agreement ther

A distress warrant; a warrant from a landlord to levy upon the tenant’s goods and chattels, and seil the same at public sale, to compel payment of the rent or the observance of som

A monument or erection set up on the boundary line of two adjoining estates, tox such boundary. Theremoving of a landmark is a wrong for which an action lies.

A person whose business it is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the wouds and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fances, gates, buildings

court of exchequer, who is appointed by patent under the great seal to be one of the bar- CURTILLIUM. A curtilage; the area ons of the exchequer. The office was abol- or Space with

Thisterm, the plural of “land,” is said, at common law, fo be a word of less extensive signification than either “tenements” or “hereditaments.” But in some of the states if has be

TENEMENTS, AND HERE-

The secretary of the English charity commissioners. He is a corporation sole for the purpose ef taking and holding real property and leaseholds upon trust for an endowed charity in

In Swedish law. A body of common law, compiled about the thirteenth century, out of the particular eustoms of every province; being analogous to the common faw of England. 1 BI. Co

A tax laid upon the legal or beneficial owner of real property, and apportioned upon the assessed value of his land.

The person actually in possession of land; otherwise atyled the “terre-tenant.” LAND TITLES AND TRANSFER

In Englishlaw. An officer of the custom-house, whose duty is, upon landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports t

The evidence which the state, on good consideration, givea that the person therein named is entitled to the quantity of land therein specilied, the bounds and description of which

A lord of amanor. 1 Inst, o.

Anundergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which teached to their knees. Mon. Angl. 419.

Any meansof conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written cliaracters, ‘The letter, or grammatical import, of a document or in

de jurisprudence exprimés dans ces codes, 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 1826.

In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant, whom he has taken by virtue of process, is 80 dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or

A sort of base coin, formerly current in England. Cowell.

In Spanish law. A commutation in money, paid by the nobiles and high officers, in lieu of the quota of soldiers they might be required to furnish in war.

The act of stoning a person to death,

Lat. Inthe civillaw. Precious stones, Dig. 34, 2, 19, 17. Distinguished from “gems,” (gemme.) Id.

A _ marble stone about twelve feet long and three feet broad, placed at the upper end of Westminster Hall, where was likewise a marble chair erected on the middle thereof, in which

». To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees. To slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. To fall or fail.

n. In ecclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right to present 687 LARCENY quence of some act of negligence by the formere FAy).Partdsd. * In the law of wills. The fa

A devise which fails, or takes no effect, in consequence of the death of the devisee before the testator; the subject-matter of it being considered as not disposed of by the will.

A patent for land issued in substitution foran earlier patent to the same land, which was issued to another party, but has lapsed in consequence of his neglect to avail himself of

Having the charater of larceny; as a ““larcenous taking.” CGontemplating or intending larceny; as a “Isrcenous purpose.”

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and earrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a fe- Jonious intent to convert them

In Pennsylyanialaw. The crime of larceny committed where “any person, being a bailee of any property, shall fraudulently take or convert the same to his own use, or to the use of a

The king’s larderer, or clerk of the kitchen. Cowell.

In the manor of Bradford, in Wilts, the tenants pay to their lord a small yearly rent by this name, which is said to be for liberty to feed their hogs with the masts of the lord’s

A species of common which is neither appendant nor appurtenant to land, but is annexed to 4 man’s person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescr

LFr. Broad; the opposite of “estreyie,” strait or strict. Pures et larges. Britt. e. 34,

Inold Englishlaw. Thieves.

A native Indian sailor; the term is also applied to tent pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and olhers.

In Connecticut. A term including those wanton acts between persons of different sexes that flow trom the exercise of lustful passions, and which are not otherwise punished as crime

or LASHLITE, A kind of forfeiture during the government of the Danes in England. Enc. Lond.

SUITS PRO. Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual offenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. ‘This attempt to turn the ecclesi

In Spanish law. The name of a code of laws, more fully described as “Zag Siete Partidas,” (“the sevwn parts,” from the number of its divisions,) were the customary law of all the p

A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing given or delivered. Spelman.