Black's Law Dictionary

Dimissory letters, (q. v.)

A term including Greek, Latin, general philology, logic, moral philosophy, metaphysics; the name of the principal course of study in the University of Oxford. Wharton.

In Roman law. The contract of nomen, which was constituted by writing, (scripturd.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re in personam, when a transaction was transferred from the day

Dead letters ; fulfilling words of a statute. Lord Bacon observes that "there are in every statute certain words which are as veins, where the life and blood of the statute cometh,

Letters patent; literally, open letters.

1 Bulst. 6. The king's letters patent shall not be void.

In old English law. Letters procuratory; letters of procuration; letters of attorney. Bract, fols. 40, 43.

In maritime law. A bill of lading. Jac. Sea Laws, 172,

Written words last.

In old English law. Sealed letters. The return of a sheriff was se called. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 64, § 19.

A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones.

Lat To litigate; to carry on a suit, (litem agere,) either as plaintiff or defendant; to claim or dispute by action; to test or try the validity of a claim by action.

To dispute or contend in form of law; to carry on a suit.

A jndicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right.

In Scotch law. The pendency of a suit; it is a tacit legal prohibition of alienation, to the disappointment of an action, or of dlligence, the direct object of which is to obtain,p

Span. Litigious; the subject of lltigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute in a pending suit White v. Gay, 1 Tex. 388.

That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense, "litigious" signifies fond of litigation; prone to engage in suits.

In ecclesiastical law, a church is said to be litigious where two presentations are offered to the bishop upon the same avoidance. Jenk. Cent. 11. —Litigious right.. In the civil l

Lat In the civil and canon law. Contestation of suit; the process of contesting a suit by the opposing statements of the respective parties; the process of coming to an issue; the

Lat. In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who is sued for its possession or recovery by a third person, falls back upon his vendor's covenant of warranty

Lat In the civll law. Ownership, control, or direction of a suit. A fiction of law by which the employment of an attorney or proctor (procurator) in a suit was authorized or justif

Co. Litt. 292. A lawsuit signifies every action, whether it be in rem or in personam.

An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit is going on.

In Spanish law. Litispendeney. The condition of a suit pending in a court of justice.

Lat. The measure of damages.

The sea-shore. "It is certain that that which the sea overflows, either at high spring tides or at extraordinary tides, comes not, as to this purpose, under the denomination or 'It

Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches or 2.113 American pints or 1.76 English pinis. Webster.

Belonging to the shore, as of seas and great lakes. Webster. Corresponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. But "riparia

Lat. In the civil law. An obliteration or blot in a will or other instrument. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1.

In old European law. A kind of servant; one who surrendered himself into another's power. Spelman. In the civil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea; the coast. —Litns mar

The shore is where the highest wave from the sea has reached. Dig. 50, 16, 96. Ang. Tide-Waters, 67.

Maintenance; support.

1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king's tenants in capite or tenants by knight's service. 2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward in chivalry, on r

In feudal law. The delivery of the lands of a ward in chivalry out of the guardian's bands, upon the heir's attaining the requisite age, —twenty-one for males, sixteen for females.

A member of some company in the city of London ; also called a "freeman."

Delivery of possession ; called, by the feudists, "investifure."

One whose business it la to keep horses for hire or to let, or to keep, feed, or board horses for others. Kittanning Borough v. Montgomery, 5 Pa. Super. Ct. 198.

See Insurance.

A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half œnts. Act Cong. March. 2, 1798, § 61; 1 Story, Laws,

An abbreviation for "Law Judge;" also for "Law Journal."

The reduplicated form of the abbreviation "L." for "law," used as a plural. It ls generally used in citing old collections of statute law; as "LL. Hen. I."

(also L. Lat.) and L. F. (also In Fr.) are used as abbreviations of the terms "Law Latin" and "Law French."

Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three academic degrees in law,—bachelor, master, and doctor of laws.

An association in the city of London, for the transaction of marine insurance, the members of which underwrite each other's policies. See Durbrow v. Eppens, 65 N. J. Law, 10, 46 At

The name of a class of evidences of debt, used in England; being acknowledgments, by a borrowing company made under its seal, of a debt incurred and actually due by the company to

See Lucrative.

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may

A bailment without reward; consisting of the delivery of an article by the owner to another person, to be used by the latter gratuitously, and returned either in specie or in kind.

Certificates issued by A clearing-house to the associated banks to the amount of seventy-five per cent, of the value of the collaterals deposited by the borrowing banks with the Lo

the Loan for consumption is an agreement by which one person delivers to another a certain quantity of things which are consumed by the use, under the obligation, by the borrower,

The loan for use is an agreement by which a person delivers a thing to another, to use it according to its natural destination, or according to the ageement, under the obligation o

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

A loan for exchange is a contract by which one delivers personal property to another, and the latter agrees to return to the lender a similar thing at a future time, without reward

Lobbying is defined to be any personui selicitation of a member of a legislative body during a session thereof, by private interview or letter or message or other means and applian

An obligation without consideration or apon a false consideration, (which fails,) or upon unlawful consideration, cannot have any effect. Co.de Civll, 3, 3, 4; Chit Cont (11th Am.

Relating to place; expressive of place; belonging or confined to a particular place. Distinguished from "general," "persenui," and "transitory." —Local aet of parliament. An act wh

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

One appointed to act as the representative of a corporation and transact its business generally (or business of a particular character) at a given place or within a defined distric

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

A charge in the nature of tax, levied to pay the whole or part of the cost of local improvements, and assessed upon the various parcels of property specially benefited thereby. Gou

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

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

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. Mobile & M. R. Co. v.

The government or administration of a particular locality; especially, the governmental authority of a municipal corporation, as a city or county, over its local and individual aff

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

As a statutory ground for the removal of a cause from a state court to a federal court, this means influence enjoyed and wielded by the plaintiff, as a resident of the place where

In Scotch law. This name is given to a life-rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life-rent of tierce, 1 Bell, Comm. 55.

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 lawmaking

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 stafute as has for its object the interest of some particular locality, 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, etc.

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

To let for hire; to deliver or bail a thing for a certain reward or compensation. Bract foL 62.

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

In French law. A lessee, tenant or renter.

Lab A depositee.

To ascertain and fix the position of something, the place of which was before uncertain or not manifest; as to locate the calls in a deed. To decide upon the place or direction to

Lat. In the civll law. Letting for hire. The term is also used by text-writers upon the law of bailment at' common law. In Scotch law it is translated "location." Bell. —Locatio-co

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 K

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 or on the land itself. Mosby v. Carland, 1 Bibb. (Ky.) 84. The finding and

In the civil law. The contract of hiring work, i. e., 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 out of work to be done; a bailment of a thing for the purpose of having some work and labor on care and pains bestowed on it for a pecuniary recompense 2 Kent, Co.m. 586,

A letting of work to be done in the carrying of goods; a contract of bailment by which goods are delivered to a person to carry for hire. 2 Kent, Comm. 597; Story, Bailm. §§ 370, 4

A letting of a thing to hire. 2 Kent, Comm. 586. The bailment or letting of a thing to be used by the bailee for a compensation 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 oDjec

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. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913. In Amer

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

A place used temporarily as a prison.

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.

The act of giving place.

See In Loco Parentis.

In old records. A coffin; fi purse.

Lat. Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lleutenant or representative.

Lab In the civil law. Able to respond in an action; good for the amount which the plaintiff might recover. Dig. 50, 16, 234, L

Lat. A place; the place where a thing is done. —Locus contractus. The place of a contract; the place where a contract ls made —Locus criminis. The locality of a crime ; the place w

The place of a contract; the place where a contract ls made

The locality of a crime ; the place where a crime was committed.

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