A Dictionary of Law

LASTAGE. A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta, l. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley.

Lestage free, or exempt from the duty of paying ballast money, Cowell.

Tastage or lestage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Covell.

Tastures. Domesday; Co, Litt. 46. <A term often inserted in old deeds and conveyances, Cowell.

v. In conveyancing. To demise or lease. “To det and set” is an old expression. In practices. Todeliver. “To let to bail” is to deliver to bail on arrest. In eontracts. To award to

n. Inoldconyeyancing. Hindrance; rostruction; interruption. Still occasionally zsed in the phrase “without any Jeé, suit, frouble,” etc.

Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn oftheday. They are also denominated “quadragesimalia.” Wharton.

In Scotch law. A dendly weapon.

In practice. Toadmita party ea 4 matter of favor; as to open a judgment and “let the defendant in” to a defense,

In Spanish law. An advocate. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 1, ¢. 1, § 3, note.

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.

A book in which a merchant or trader keeps copies of letters sent by him to his correspondents. ters from the post-office to the persons t& whom they are addressed.

In English law. A letter from the king or queen to a dean and chapter, containing the name of the person whom he would have them elect as bishop. ] Steph. Comm. 666. A request addr

A communication from one person to another, advising or warning the latter of something which he ought to know, and commonly apprising him beforehand of some act done by the writer

In Seotch law. The process or warrant by which, on appeal to the supreme court or court of session, that tribunal assumes to itself jurisdiction of the cause, and discharges the lo

A power of attorney; a written instrument by which one person constitutes another his true and lawful attorney, in order that the latter may do for the foriner, and in his place an

In international law. The document which accredits an ambassador, minister, or envoy to the court or government to which he is sent; @ e., certilies to his appointment and qualific

An open or sealed letter, from a merchant in one piace, directed to another, in another place or country, requiring him, if a person therein y particular or unlimited amount, to pr

A bill of excliange, (q. 0.)

A letter or written instrument given by creditors to their debtor, who has failed in trade, ete., allowing him longer time for the payment of his debts, and protecting him from arr

A commission given to a private ship by a government fo make reprisals on the ships of another state; hence, also, the ship thus commissioned.

A document addressed by the executive of one nation to that of another, informing the latter that a minister sent by the former has been recalled.

A writing whereby one person certilies concerning another that he is of good character, solyent, possessed of commercial credit, i skilled in his trade or profession, or otherwise

A document embodying the formal action of a government upon a letter of recall of a foreign minister. It, in effect, accredits him back to hisown government. It isaddressed to the

In English law. Close letters are grants of the king, and, being of private concern, they are thus distinguished from letters patent.

Ab solvatory letters, used in former times, when an abbot released any of his brethren ab omnia subjectione et obedientia, etc., and made them capable of entering into some other o

The instrument by which an administrator or administratrix is authorized by the probate court, surrogate, or other proper oilicer, to have the charge and administration of the good

In Scotch law. Letters are admissible in evidence against the panel, z.e., the prisoner at the bar, in criminal trials. A letter written by the panel is evidence against him; not s

See Fire AND Sworp.

in the law Scotland, are letters running in the sovereign’s name and passing the signet. They ure directed to messengers at arms, as sheriffs in that part, (%. e, persons specially

A formal instrument by which an inferior judge of ecclesiastical jurisdiction requests the judge of a@ superior court to take and determine any maiter which has come before him, th

No subject of a nation at war with England can, seized, unless he has Weiss of safe conduct, ration. which, by divers old statutes, must be granted were at first made use of occas

or SLANES. punishment. They were also granted Letters subscribed by the relatives of a per- king for the purpose of shielding his sou who had been slain, declaring that they ites o

That which may

Lat. Light; slight; vis culpa, slight fault or neglect. a culpa, the slightest neglect., @ slight mark er brand.

v. To raise; execute; sch a sum of money

In Romanlaw. The agrarian law. A law proposed by Tiberius Gracchus, A. U. ©. 620, that no one should possess more than five hundred acres of land; and that three commissioners shou

The law of the Alemanni; first reduced to writing from the customs of the country, by Theodoric, king of the Franks, A. D. 512. Amended and re-enucted by Clotaire II. Spelman. Lex

In Roman law. The lian Sentian law, respecting wills, proposed by the consuls Ailius and Sentius, and passed A. U. C. 756, restraining a master from manumitting his slaves in certa

One who is an infamous, perjured, or outlawed person. Bract. lib. 4, c. 19.

The law of England. The commen law. Or, the curtesy of England. Lex Anglis est lex misericordis. 2 Inst. 815. The law of England is a law of mercy. Lex Angliz non patitur absurdum.

A thing contrary to law. Jacob.

In old English and Norman law, Apparent or manifest law. A term used to denote the trial by buttel or duel, and the frial by ordeal, “dex” having the 3ense of process of law. Calle

In Roman law. The Aquilian law; acelebrated law passed on the proposition of the tribune C. Aquilius Gallus, A, U. C, 672, regulating the compensation to be made for that kind of d

The Atilian law; a law of Rome proposed by the tribune L, Atilius Regulus, A. U. C. 443, regulating the appointment of guardians.

In Roman law. The Atinian law; a law declaring that the property in things stolen should not be acquired by prescription, (wsweapione.) Inst. 2, 6, 2; Adams, Rom. Ant. 207.

The barbarian law. The laws of those nations that were not subject to the Roman empire were so culled. Speloan. Lex beneficialis rei consimili remoe-

The law of the county, or that administered in the county court before the earl or his deputy. Spelman.

In Roman law. A law by which a debtor and ereditor might agree (where a thing had been pledged to the latter to secure the debt) that, if the debtor did not pay at the day, the ple

In Roman law. The Cornelian law; a law passed by the dictator L. Cornelius Sylla, providing remedies for certain injuries, as for battery, forcible entry of another's house, etc. C

In Roman law. The Cornelian law respecting forgery or counterfeiting. Passed by the dictator Sylla. Dig. 48, 10; Calvin. LEX CORNELIA DE SICARIIS ET

The proof of a thing which one denies to be done by him, where another aflirms it; defeating the assertion of his adversary, and showing it be against reason or probability. ‘This

Thelaw of the domicile. 2 Kent, Comm. 112, 433. Lex est ab eterno. Law is from everlasting. A strong expression to denote the Temote antiquity of the law. Jenk. Cent. p. 34, case 6

In Romanlaw. The Falcidian law; a law passed on the motion of thetribune P, Falcidius, A. U. C. 713, forbidding a testator to give more in legacies than three-fourths of all his es

The law of the forum, or court; that is, the positive law of the state, country, or jurisdiction of whose judicial system the court where the suit is brought or remedy sought is an

The law of the Franks; promulgated by Theodorie I., son of Clovis I., at the sume time with the law of the Alemanni and Bavarians. Spelman. This was a different collection from the

The law of the Frisians, promulgated about the middle of the eighth century. Spelman.

In Roman law. The Furian Caninian law; a law passed in the consulship of P. Furius Camillus and C. Caninius Gallus, A. U. C. 752, prohibiting masters from manumitting by will more

The Gothic law, or law of the Goths. First promulgated in writing, A. D. 406. Spelman.

The Imperial or Roman law. Quoted under this name, by Fleta, lib. 1, ¢. 38, § 15; Id. lib. 3, e. 10, § 3. er Lex intendit vicinum vicini facta scire. The law intends [or presumes]

In Romanlaw. The Julian law of majesty; alaw promulgated by Julius Cesar, and again published with additions by Augustus, compre hending all the laws before enacted to punish trans

The law of the place. This may be of the following several descriptions: Lex loci contractus, the law of the place where the contract was made or to be performed; lex loci actus, t

The law Se of the place of the contract. The local law which governs as to the nature, construction, and validity of a contract.

The law of the place where the crime took place.

The law of the place where a thing is situated. “It is equally settled in the law of all civilized countries that rea! property, as to its tenure, mode of enjovment, transfer, and

The law of the place of solution; the law of the place where payment or performance of a contract is to be made.

The law of the Lombards. The name of an ancient code of laws among that people, framed, probably, between the Ofth and eighth centuries, It continued in force after the incorporati

Manifest or open law; the trial by duel or ordeal. The same with lex apperens, (gq. v-) In King John's eharter (chapter 38) and the articles of that charter (chapter 23) the word “

The unwritten or common law, which includes general and particular customs, and particular local laws.

The sawe as leo Sort, (q. 0.)

In Roman law. The Papian Poppaean law; a law proposed by the consuls Papius and Poppaeus at the desire of Augustus, A. U. C. 762, enlarging the Lex Praetoria, (q. v.) Inst. 3, 8, 2

In Roman law. The Pretorian law. A law by which every freedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety Lo his patron. Inst. 3, 8,1. The term has been applied to the rules t

In Roman law. The royal or imperial law. A law enacted (or supposed or claimed to have been enacted} by the Roman people, constituting the emperor a source of law, conferring the l

The law of the place wf situation of the thing.,- Lex rejicit superfilua, pugnantia, incongrua. Jenk. Cent. 188, The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incongruous things.

The Rhodian law, particularly the fragment of it on the subject of jettison, (de jactu,) preserved in the Pandects. Dig. 14, 2, 1; 3 Kent, Comm. 252, 233.

The Salic law, or law of the Salian Franks, a Teutonic race who settled in Gaul in the fifth century. This ancient code, said to have been compiled about the year 420, embraced the

Written law; law deriving its force, not from usage, but from express legislative enactment; statutelaw. 1 Bl Comm. 62, 85. Lex scripta si cesset, id custodiri oportet quod moribus

Modern law Latin for “the law of the place where property is situated.” The general rule is that lands and other immoyables are governed by the lea situs; i. e., by the law of the

The law of retaliation; which requires the infliction upon a wrongdoer of the same injury which he has caused to another. Txpressed in the Mosaic law by the formula, “an eya for an

The law of the land. The common law, or the due course of the common law; the general law of the land. Bract. fol. 175. Equivalent to "due process of law." In the strictest sense,

The Welsh law. the law of Wales. Blount. ‘LEX WISIGOTHORUM. The law of Visigoths, or Western Goths who settled pain; first reduced to writing A. D. 466. Atrevision of these laws wa

In Spanish law. A law; the law; law in the abstract.

In old English law. The civil or Roman law. Yearb. H. 8 Edw. Ill. 42. Otherwise termed “ley escripte,” the written law. Yearb. 10 Edw. III. 24.

In Spanish law. A collection of laws, usually published as an appendix to the Fuero Real; treating of the mode of conducting suits, prosecuting them to judgment, and entering appea

Fr. Law wager; wager of law; the giving of gage or security by a defendant that he would make or perfect hia law at a certain day. Litt. § 514; Co. Litt. 294), 295a,

An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion.

In old Sectch criminal law. Anoffense consisting in slanderous and untrue speeches, to the disdain,

Lawful birth; the condition of being burn in wedlock; the opposite of illegitimacy or bastardy.

An aneient writ that lay to remove a leper or lazar, who thrust himself into the company of his neighbors in any parish, either in the church or at

Lat. Leze-majesty, or injured majesty; high treason. It isa phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any olfense against the king’s person or dignity. LA#STO ULTRA DIMI

A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (except it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to the lord. Blount.

The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice to do, pay, or make good something; legal responsibility. 86 Iowa, 226; 36 N. J. Law, 145; 57 Cal. 209.

1. Bound or obliged inlaw or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; cumpellable to make satisfaction, compensation, or restitution. 2. Exposed or subject to a given contingen

A farthing.

0. Inadiniralty practice. To proceed against, by filing a libel; to seize under admiralty process, at the commencement of a suit. Also to defame or injure a person’s reputation by

Inpractice. The initiatory pleading on the part of the plaintiif or complainant in an admiralty or ecclesiastical cause, corresponding to the declaration, bill, or complaint. In th

The complainant or party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff in actions at law.

Lat. In the civillaw. A little book. Libellus suppleax, a petition, especially to the emperor, all petitions to whom must be in writing. Libellum rescribere, to mark on such petiti

In the civillaw. Thestatement ofa plaintiif’s claim in a petition presented to the magistrate, who directed an officer to deliver it to the defendant.