A Dictionary of Law

In English law, A kind of club formed for the purpose of advancing money on Ioan to the industrial classes.

“Lobbying” is defined to be any personal solicitation of a member of a legislative body during a session thereof, by private interview, or letter or message, or other means and app

Relating to place; expressive of place; belonging or confined to a particular place. Distinguished from “general,” “personal,” and “transitory.”

An action is 50 termed when all the principal facts on which it is founded are of a local nature; us where possession of land is to be recovered, or damages for an actual trespass,

An act which has for its object the interest of sume particular locality, as the formation of a road, the alteration of tlhe course of a river, the formation of a public market in

That measure of obedience which is due from a subject of one government to another government, within whose territory he is temporarily resident.

Courts whose jurisdiction is limited to a particular territory or district. The expression often signifies the courts of the state, in opposition tothe United states courts,

A particular or special custom; one not general in its nature or observance, but confined to a particular district or locality.

Freight shipped from either terminus of a railroad to a way station, or vice versa, or from one way station to another; that is, over a part of the road only. 61 Ala. 579.

By common usage, especially as evidenced by the practice of courts and text-writers, the term “local improvements” ig employed as signifying improvements made in a particular local

In Scotehlaw. This name is given to a life-rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of

<A law which, instead of relating to and binding all persons, corporations, or institutions to which it may be applicable, within the whole territorial jurisdiction of the law-maki

A privilege accorded by the legislature of a state to the several counties or other districts of the state to determine, each for itself, by popular vote, whether or not licenses s

The “prejudice or local influence” which will warrant the removal of a cause from a state court to a federal court may be either prejudice and influence existing against the party

Such a statute as has for its object the interest of some particular lecality, as the formation of a road, the alteration of the course of a river, the formation of a public market

Those assessments which are limited to certain districts, as poor-rates, parochial taxes, county rates, municipal taxes, ete.

Inpleading. A venue which must be laid in a particular county. When tle action could have arisen only in a particular county, it is local, and the venue must be laid in that county

To let for hire; to deliver or Nail a thing for a certain reward or compengation. Bract. fol. 62.

Inold European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent. Spelman.

In French’ law. A lessee, tenant, or renter.

A depositee.

To ascertain and fx the position of sumething, the place of which was before uncertain or not manifest; as to locate the calls in a deed. To decide upou the place or direction to b

Lat. In the civil law. Letting 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.

In the civil law. A compound word used to denote the contract of bailment for hire, expressing the action of both parties, viz., a letting by the one, and a hiring by the other. 2

In the civil law. The contract of hiring work, 7. ¢., labor and services. It is a contract by which one of the parties gives a certain work to be performed by the other, who binds

A letting to keep; a bailment or deposit of goods for hire. Story, Bailm. § 442.

In American land law. The designation of the boundaries of a particular piece of land, either upon record oron the land itself. 1 Bibb, 84. The finding and marking out the bounds o

A letting out of work to be done; a bailmenb ofa thing for the purpose of haying some work and labor or care and pains bestowed on it for a pecuniary recompense. 2 Kent, Comm. 586,

A letting of athingt hire. 2 Kent, Comm. 586. The bailmento letting of a thing to be used by the bailee fo acompensation to be paid by him. Story, Bailm. § 370.

In a deed, patent, or other instrument containing a description of land, locative calls are specific calls, descriptions, or marks of location, referring to landmarks, physical obj

In the civil and Scotch ° law. <A letter; one who lets; he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. In American land law. One who locates I

An officer in the Isle of Man, to execute the orders of the governor, much like our under-sheriif. Wharton.

A place used temporarily as a prison.

Fr. In French marine law. A pilot.

The act of giving place.

In old records. A colin; a purse.

Lat. A place; the place where & thing is done.

The place of a contract; the place where a contract is made.

The locality of a erime; the place where a crime was committed,

The place of the offense; the place where an offense wus committed. 2 Kent, Comm. 109.

The place in which. The place in which the cause of action arose, er where anything is alleged, in pleadings, to have been done. The phrase is most frequently used in actions ef tr

In old English law. <A place divided. A division made between two towns or counties to make out in which the land or place in question lies. Fleta, lib, 4, c. 15, § 1; Cowell.

A place for repentance; an opportunity for changing one’s mind; a chance to withdraw from a contemplated bargain or contract before it sesults in a definite contractual liability.

In the civil law. A public piace. Dig. 43, 8, 1; Id. 43, 8, 2, 3. legal transaction complies with the formalltties required by the law of the country where it is done, it is also v

The places where a thing is situated. In proveedinus in vem, or the real actions of the civil law, the proper forum is the locus rei stte. 2 Gall. 191, 197.

The place of the seal; the piace oceupied by the seal of written instruments, Usually abbreviated to “L,S.”

A place of standing; standing incourt. Aright of appearance in acourt of justice, or before a legislative body, on a given question.

This term, as used in the legislation of congress, is applicable to any zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It

or LOADSMAN, The pilot conducts the ship up the river or into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by the pil

The hire of a pilot for condueting a yessel from one place to another. Cowell.

One who occupies hired apartments in another's house; a tenant of part of another’s house. A tenant, with the right of exclusive possession of a part of a house, the landlord, by h

MHabitation in another’s house; apartments in another's house, furnished or unfurnished, occupied for habitation; the oecupier being termed a “lodger.”

In old French and Canadian law. <A fine payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his

A thing is local that is fixed to the freehold. Kitchin, 180.

An unlawful game mentioned in St. 33 Hen. VIII. ec, 9.

Aship’s journal. It contains a minute account of the ship’s course, with ashort history of every occurrence during the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 312. The part of the log-book relating

<A small house, lodge, or cottage. Mon. Angl. tom. 1, p. 400.

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence, ‘The term includes both the process itself of proceeding fr

In old records. A lodge, hovel, or outhouse.

In Roman law. A public clerk, register, or bouk-keeper; one who wrote or kept books of accounts. Dig. 50, 4, 18, 10; Cod. 10, 69.

<A mischievous legislative practice, of embracing in one bill several distinct matters, none of which, perhaps, could singly obtain the assent of the legislature, and then procurin

Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of various kinds; not including manufactured lumber of any sort, n

A body of primitive Wesleyans, who assumed importance about the time of John Wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (a

A name givento the merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Hurope.

The name usually given to the parliament which metin November, 1640, under Charles 1., and was dissolved by Cromwell on the 10th of April, 1653. The name “Long Parliament” is, howe

THE. An expression used to denote part second of the year-book which gives reports of cases in 5 Edw. IV,

The recess of the English courts from August 10th to October 24th, Longa possessio est pacis jus, Long possession is the law of peace. Braneh, Princ.; Co. Litt: 6. Longa possessio

A proper lockout on a yvessel is some one in a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsinun to communicate with him, and to receive communications from him, an

A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain perioils of the year, LOQUELA

His office has been disused (except only upon great and solemn occasions, as the coronation, or the like) since the attainder of Staiford, Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of Henry

In Englishlaw. <A tribunal instituted for the trial of peers indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but not for any other offense. The office is very ancient,

In English law. A title honor or nobility belonging properly to degree of baron, but applied also to the peerage. as in the expression “the house lords.” 1 Bi. Comm. 396-400. A tit

The judge of the English court of exchequer, prior to the judicature acta.

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In land, when a person is impeached, or when peer is tried on indictment for treason felony before the house of lords, one of lords is appointed lord high steward, and as speaker p

Five peers who for a time superseded Richard II. in bis government, and whom, after a brief control of the government, he in turn superseded in 1897, und put the survivors of them

In English Jaw. When a high public office in the state, formerly executed by an individual, is put into commission, the persons charged with the commission are called “lords commis

<A name sometimes given to Sunday. Co. Lilt. 155.

In English law. Dominion, manor, seigniory, domain; also a title of honor used to a nobleman not being a duke. It is also the customary titulary appellation of the judges and some

In English law. The title of the ordinary judges of the court of appeal, by Jud. Act 1877, § 4. Prior to the judicature acts, there were bwo “lords justices of appeal in chaneery,”

Those nobiemen who lived on the marches of Wales or Scotland, who in times past had their laws and power of life and death, like petty kings. Abolished by 27 Hen. VIIL. c. 26, and

Those members of the house of lords of whom at least three cellor, the lords of appeal in ordinary, and such peers of parliament as hold, or have held, high judicial offices, such

On the Retormation in Scotland, the king, as proprieton of benefices formerly held by abbots and priors, gave them out in temporai lordships to favorites, who were termed “lords of

Those who have seats in the house of lords. During bankruptcy, peers are disqualified from sitting or voting in the house of lords. 34 & 35 Vict. ¢. 50.

In Seotch law. Persons to whom rights of civil and eriminal jurisdiction were given by the crown,

Lords appoint ed in 1312, in the reign of Edward II., for the control of the sovereign and the court party, and for the general reform and better government oi the country, Brown,

Thearchbishops and bishops who have seats in the house of lords.

Those lay peers who huve seata in the house of lords.

A phrase sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance to signify that tle contract is meant to relate back to the beginning of a voyage now in progress, or to some other ante

Papers which have been so mislid that they cannot be found after diligent search.

The arbitrament of chance; hazard. That which fortuitously determines What course shall be taken or what disposition be made of property or rights. A share; one of several parcels

In English law. Certain duties which must be paid by those who claim to exercise the elective franchise within certain cities and boroughs, before they are entitled to vote. It is

or LEYERWIT. In old English law. A liberty or privilege to take amends for lying with a bondwoman without license.

A small tract or pareel of land in a village, town, or city, suitable for building, or for a garden, or other similur uses. See 28 N. J. Law, 44; 37 N. J. Eq. 486; 28 Minn. 17, 8 N

Inold English law. The day on which any dispute was amicably settled between neighbors; or a day on which one neighbor helps ancther without hire. Wharton.

A recompense for the death of a man killed inatumult. Cowell.

Fr. In French maritime law, Wages. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 14, art, 16.

In old European law. Jurisdiction of petty offenses, as distinguished from “high justice,” (q, %.)

The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. 13 How, 417.