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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The movement by which a ship or boat descends from the shore into the water when she is first built, or afterwards. A large, long, low, flat-bottomed boat. Mar. Diet. The long-boat of a ship; a small vessel employed to carry the cargo of a large one to and from the shore. LAUS DEO (Lat.) Praise be to God. An old heading to bills of exchange. West, Symb. pt.
1, lib. 2, S 660.
LAVOR NUEVA (Spanish). In Spanish law. A new work. Las Partidas, pt.
8, tit. 32, lib. 1.