Black's Law Dictionary

Having the character of larceny; as a "larcenous taking." Contemplating or intending larceny; as a "larcenous purpose." —Larcenous intent. A larcenous intent exists where a man kno

A larcenous intent exists where a man knowingly takes and carries away the goods of another without any claim or pretense of right, with intent wholly to deprive the owner of them

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent inking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to

In Pennsylvania law. 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

Larceny committed where the property stolen is on the person or in the immediate charge or custody of the person from whom the theft is made, but without such circumstances of forc

The king's lard-erer 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

Li Fr. Broadthe opposite of "estreyte," strait or strict Pure et large. Britt, c. 34.

In old English law. Thieves.

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

Tending to excite lust; lewd; indecent; obscene; relating to sexual impurity; tending to deprave the morals in respect to sexual relations. See Swearingen v. U. S., 161 U. S. 446,

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

The offense committed by two persons (not married to each other) who live together in one habitation as man and wife and practice sexual intercourse.

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

In Spanish law. The name of a code of laws, more fully described as "Las 8iete Partidas," ("the seven parts," from the number of its divisions,) which was compiled under the direct

adj. Latest; ultimate; final; most recent —Last clear chance. In the law of negligence, this term denotes the doctrine or rule that, notwithstanding the negligence of a plaintiff,

A custom exacted in some fairs and markets to carry things bought whither one will. But it is more accurately taken for the ballast or lading of a ship. Also custom paid for wares

Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also denominated "quadragesimalia." Wharton.

In the law of negligence, this term denotes the doctrine or rule that, notwithstanding the negligence of a plaintiff, if, at the time the injury was done, it might have been avoide

A court held by the twenty-four jurats in the marshes of Kent, and summoned by the bailiffs, whereby outers were made to lay and levy taxes, impose penalties, etc., for the preserv

In English law. He to whom lands come by escheat for want of lawful heirs; that is, in some cases, the lord of whom the lands were held ; in others, the sovereign. Cowell.

The immediate illness resulting in the person's death. In re Duckett's Estate, 1 Kulp (Pail 227.

A court from which there is no appeal is calied the "court of last resort."

That iliness of which a person dies is so called. Huse v. Brown. 8 Me. 169; Harrington v. Stees, 82 111. 54, 25 Am. Rep. 290; McVoy v. Percival, Dud. Law (S. Ct) 337; Prince v. Haz

This term, according to Lord Coke, is most commoDl; used where lands and tenements are devised, and "testament" where it concerns chattels. Co. Litt. 111a. Both terms, however, are

Lat. In the law of bailment. Gross fault or neglect; extreme negligence or carelessness, (nimia negligentia,) Dig. 50, 16, 213, 2.

Gross negligence is equivalent to fraud.

An under-ground survey.

Defunct; existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 190. Formerly ; recently; lately

This word has been held to have "a very large retrospect, as we say 'lately deceased' of one dead ten or twenty ycars." Per. Cur. 2 Show. 294.

Lat Latent; hidden; not apparent. See Ambiguitas.

Hidden; concealed; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See Ambiguity. —Latent deed. A deed kept for twenty years or more in a man's scrutoire or

A deed kept for twenty years or more in a man's scrutoire or strong-box. Wright v. Wright, 7 N. J. Law, 177, 11 Am. Dec. 546.

A defect in an article sold, which is known to the seller, but not to the purchaser, and is not discoverable by mere observation. See Hoe v. Sanborn, 21 N. Y. 552, 78 Am. Dec. 163.

See Equity.

An equitable claim or right, the knowledge of which has been confined to the parties for and against whom it exists, or which has been concealed from one or several persons interes

In old records. Sidesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell.

A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between its termini; it is but another name for a branch road, both being a part of the main road. Newhali v.

The right of lateral and subjacent support is that right which the owner of land has to have his land supported by the adjoining land or the soll beneath. Stevenson v. Wallace, 27

To lie sideways, in opposition to ying endways; used in descriptions of lands.

The name of an ancient civil division in England, intermediate between the county or shire and the hundred. Said to be the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was termed a

Lat. In the civil law. Great or large possessions; a great or large field; a common. A great estate made up of smaller ones, (fundis,) which began to be common in the latter times

A possessor of a large estate made up of smaller ones. Du Cange.

A word used by Lord Coke in the sense of an interpreter 2 Inst. 515. Supposed to be a corruption of the French "latinier," or "latiner." Cowell; Blount.

The language of the ancient Romans. There are three sorts of law Latin: (1) Good Latin, allowed by the grammarians and lawyers ; (2) false or incongruous Latin, which in times past

An interpreter of Latin.

Lat. In Roman law. A class of freedmen (libertini) intermediate between the two other classes of freedmen called, respectively, "Cives Romani" and "Dediticii." Slaves under thirty

In old English practice. A writ which issued in personal actions, on the return of non est invetitus to a bill of Middlesex; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in whi

Lat. In the civil law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract, fol. 126.

Lat. In the civil law. A bcar-er; a messenger. Also a maker or giver of laws.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A robber. Dig. 50, 16, 118; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 1. A thief.

The act of robbing; a depredation.

The prerogative of adjudging and executing thieves; also larceny; thett; a thing stolen.

Larceny.

A second mowing; the aftermath.

Lat. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one's title or authority. Calvin. In feudal law. To determine or pass upon judicially. Laudamentum, the finding or award o

Lat. In Roman law. Testimony delivered in court concerning an accused person's good behavior and integrity of life. It resembled the practice which prevails in our trials of callin

Lat. An arbitrator; a witness to character.

See Damages.

In Spanish law. The tax paid by the possessor of land held by quit-rent or emphyteusis to the owner of the estate, when the tenant alienates his right in the property. Escriche.

Lat. In the civil law. a sum paid by a new emphyteuta (q. vt) who acquires the emphyteusis, not as heir, but as a singular successor, whether by gift, devise, exchange or sale. It

The name given to certain English statutes, (8 Viet, c. 8, amended by 23 & 24 Vietc. lO6, and 32 & 33 Viet. c. 18,) the object of which was to provide legislative clauses in a conv

See Land.

Lat. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law. Sentence or judgment; dome or doom. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8.

Frank-pledge. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 17.

A kind of offensive weapon. now disused, and prohibited by 7 Rich. II. c. 13.

1. The act of launching a vessel; the movement of a vessel from the land into the water, especially the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. Homer v. The Lady of t

In English law. An officer of the household of the sovereign, whose business formerly consisted only in composing an ode annually, on the sovereign's birthday, and on the new year;

Pieces of gold, coined in 1619, with the king's head laureated; hence the name.

Lat. Praise be to GodAn old heading to bills of exchange.

A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest and other officlating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they

In Spanish law. A new work. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32, I. 1.

1. That which is laid down, ordained or established. A rule or method according to which phenomena or actions coexist or follow each other. 2. A system of principles and rules of h

Solicitors practicing in the Scotch courts.

Opposed to immutable, a law not founded in the nature of things, but imposed by the mere will of the legislature.

In Scotch law. Security for the peaceable behavior of a party ; security to keep the peace. Properly, a process for obtaining such security. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 198.

This phrase is used, under the Louisiana Civil Code, to signify costs incurred in court in the prosecution of a suit, to be paid by the party cast. Rousseau v, -His Creditors. 17 L

See Day'.

In American law. An appellate tribunal. formerly existing in the state of South Carolina, for hearing appeals, from the couris of law.

The Norman French language, introduced into England by William the Conqueror, and which, for several cenfuries, was, in an emphatic sense, the language of the English law, being th

Legal; warranted or authorized by the law; having the qualifications prescribed by law; not contrary to nor forbidden by the law. The principni distinction between the terms "lawfu

Full age; majority; generally the age of twenty-one years, though sometimes eighteen as to a female. See McKim v. Handy, 4 Md. Ch. 237.

The expression "lawful authorities," used in our treaty with Spain, refers to persons who exercised the power of making grants by authority of the crown. Mitchel v. U. S., 9 Pet. t

Such a discharge in insolvency as exonerates the debtor from his debts. Mason v. Haile, 12 Wheat. 370 , 6 L. Ed. 660.

An entry on real estate, by one out of, possession, under claim or color of right and without force or fraud. See Stouffer v. Harlan, 68 Kan. 135, 74 Pac. 613, 64 In R. A. 320, 104

Whatever is not prohibited to be exported by the positive Law of the country, even though it be contraband of war; for a neutral has a right to carry such goods at his own risk. Se

In a general sense, those whom the law recognizes as the heirs of a decedent, but in a special and technical sense, lineal descendants only. Abbott v. Essex Co, 18 How. 215. 15 L,

A freeman, unattainted, and capable of bearing oath; a. legali homo.

Money which is a legal tender in payment of debts; e. g., gold and silver coined at the mint.

The cutting several claws of the forefeet of dogs in the forest, to prevent their running at deer.

The corrupt form of the Latin language employed in the old English law-books and legal proceedings. _ It contained many barbarous words and combinations.

Not subject to law; not controlled by law; not authorized by law; not observing the rules and forms of law. See Arkansas v. Kansas & T. Coal Co. (C. C.) 96 Fed. 362. —Lawless court

An ancient local English court, said to have been held in Essex once a year, at cock-crowing, without a light or pen and ink, and conducted in a whisper. Jacob.

An outlaw.

An annual English publication of a quasi official character, comprising various statistics of interest in connection with the legal profession. It includes (among other information

Peers in the British parliament who have held high judicial office, or have been distinguished in the legal profession. Mozley & Whitley.

See Martial Law.

See Mercantile Law.

In old English law. A plain between woods. Co. Litt. 5b.

That law which gives precepts and rules concerning war; how to make and observe leagues and truce, to punish offenders in the camp, and such like. Co.well; BJount. Now more cpmmonl