Black's Law Dictionary

A Norman French term signifying "grandfather." It is also spelled "ateul" and "ayle." Kelham. This letter, as a Roman numeral, stands for the number "fifty." It is also used as an

An abbreviation of "Long Quinto," one of the parte of the Year Books.

Fr. The. The definite article in the feminine gender. Occurs in some legal terms and phrases; as "Termes de la Ley," terms of the law. Fr. There. An adverb of time and place; where

In old records. A net, gin or snare.

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

In old records. Watery land.

1. 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 ac

In old practice. To tamper with a jury; to endeavor to influence them in their verdict or their verdict generally.

An ancient writ against persons who refused to serve and do labor, and who had no means of llving; Or against such as, having served in the winter, refused to serve in the summer.

One who, as a means of livelihood, performs work and labor for those who employ him. Oliver v. Macon Hardware Co., 98 Ga. 249, 25 S. B. 403, 58 Am. St. Rep. 300; Blanchard v. Railw

In English iaw. These are the statutes 23 Edw. III., 12 Rich. 11., 5 Eliz. c. 4, and 26 & 27 Viet. c. 125', making various regulations as to laborers, servants, apprentices, etc.

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

In old English law. A fathom. Co. Litt4b.

The star-chambsr.

Negligence, consisting in the omission of something which a party might do, and might reasonably be expected to do, towards the vindication or enforcement of hls rights. The word i

In Indian computation, 100,000. The value of a lac of rupees is about £10,000 sterling. Wharton.

Conscience ls the most changeable of rnies. Bouv. Diet.

L. Lat. In old English law. Defect in the weight of money; lock of weight. This word and the verb "lactare" are used in an assise or statute of the sixth year of Bang John. Spelman

In old records. A ditch or dyke; a furrow for a drain; a gap or blank in writing.

In the civil law. A lake; a receptacle of water which is never dry. Dig. 48, 14, 1, 3. In old English law. Allay or alloy of silver with base metal. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, § 6.

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 ground

A term of maritime law, applied to a vessel which is freighted with a cargo which is neither in casks, boxes, bales, nor cases, but lies loose in the hold, being defended from wet

The mouth of a river.

In English law. The title belonging to the wife of a peer, and (by courtesy) the wife of a baronet or knight, and also in 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 Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In paris 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 sought a divorce by special act of parliament.

In old English law. One of a class between servile and free. Palgrave, i. 354.

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

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

See Ligan.

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.

L. Lat. In old English law. A measure of ale. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 11. Said to consist of six sextaries. Cowell.

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

A breach of law. Cowell. A mulct for an offense, viz., twelve "ores."

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

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

Lat. A layman. One who is not lu holy orders or not engaged innthe ministry of religion.

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

In Fr. Lay people; a jury.

In English law. Those persons who do 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,

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. See Jones v. Lee, 77 Mich. 35, 48

The law favors the inheritance of a man. Yearb. M. 10 Hen. VI. 51.

The law favors the life of a man. Yearb. M. 10 Hen. VI. 51.

The law will sooner suffer a mischief than an inconvenience. Litt. § 231. It is holden for an inconvenience that any of the maxims of the law should be broken, though a private man

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

A sheep, 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 office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599.

In English law. A degree cohferred 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 for a person unable to meet his engagements.

The 1st of August. It is one of the Scotch quarter days, and is what is called a "conventional term."

Lands over which there is a right of pasturage by persons other thanithe owner from about Lammas or reaping time, until sowing time. Wharton.

Lat. In the civll 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.

In feudal law. Vassals 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.

In the most general sense, comprehends any ground, soil or earth whatsoever; as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furzes, and heath. Co. Litt. 4a. The word "land" i

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

In Saxon law. A proprietor of land; lord of the soil. Ana Inst Eng.

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

Upon the registration of freehold land under the English land transfer act, 1875, a certificate is given to the registered proprietor, and similarly upon every transfer of register

In old English law. An ancient customary fine, paid either in money or cattle, at every alienation of land lying within some manor or within the liberty of some borough. Cowell; Bl

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

A term sometimes applied to the amount of compensation to he Pnih fur land taken under the power of eminent domain or for injury to, or depreciation of, land adjoining that taken.

That office of the United States government which bas jurisdiction and charge of the public lands, including the secretary of the interior and the commissioner of the general land

A division of a state or territory, created by federal authority, in which is located a United States land office, with a "register of the land office" and a "receiver of public mo

In old English law. A ditch or trench for conveying water from marshy grounds. Spelman.

Consisting in real estate or land; having an estate In land. —Landed estate. See Estate. —Landed estates conrt. The court which denis with the transfer of land and the creation of

See Estate.

The court which denis with the transfer of land and the creation of title thereto in Ireland.

Reni estate in general, or sometimes, by local usage, suburban or rural land, as distinguished from real estate situated in a city. See Electric Co. v. Baltimore, 98 Md. 630, 49 At

Any person having an estate in lands, whether highly improved or not. Police Jury of Parish of St. Mary v. Harris, 10 La. Ann. 677.

A landlord; a lord of the soil.

Sax. In old English law. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman.

See Land.

A donation of public lands to a subordinate government, a corporation, or an individual; as, from the United States to a state, or to a railroad company to aid in the construction

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 wate

In Saxon law. Services and duties laid upon all that held land, including the three obligations called "trinoda necessitas," (q. 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 it cannot be approached except over their laud

He of whom lands or tenements are holdeu. He who, being the owner of an estate in land, has leased the same for a term of years, on a rent reserved, to another person, called the "

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

See Landlord.

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

Governmental offices, subordinate to the general land office, established in various parts of the United States, for the transaction of local business relating to the survey, locat

See Land.

This term, the plural of "land," is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification than either "tenements" or "hereditaments." But in some of the states it has b

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

The technical and most comprehensive description of real property, as "goods and chattels" is of personalty. Williams, Real Prop. 5.

A person who overlooks or has the management of a farm or estate.

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 styled the "terre-tenant."

An English statute (38 & 39 Viet. c. 87) providing for the establishment of a registry for titles to real property, and making sundry provisions for the transfer of lands and the r

In English law. 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

In Scotch law. Rural. 7 Bell, App. Cas. 2.

A warrant issued at the local land offices of the United States to purchasers of public lands, on the surrender of which at the general land office at Washington, they receive a co

A lord of a manor. 1 Inst. 5.

An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Mon. Angl. 419.