The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writing, hanging at or out of the same. This name is also given to an appending seal. See 2 Fed. 217. It is also a mark, or

Continued operation; work; manual work. The act' of doing what requires a painful exertion of strength; pains; toil; work to be done; work done; performance; exercise; motion with

To tamper with a Jury; to persuade jurymen not to appear. It seems to come from the meaning of "labor," to prosecute with energy, to urge; as, to labor a point. Dyer, 48; Hob. 294;

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

One who performs manual labor, 10 Am. & Eng. R. R. Gas. 642, not re- A contractor is not (6 Am. & Eng. R. R. Cas. 619), nor is an architect who merely provides plans (90 Pa. St. 47

Freig Tited with a cargo which is neither in casks, boxes, bales, nor cases, but lies loose in the hold, being defended from wet or moisture by a number of mats and a quantity of d

The title pertaining to a peer's Svife, and (By courtesy) to the wife of a

The court of a lady of the manor.

The feast of the Annunciation, March twenty-fifth.

The name of a functionary in the British house of commons. When the husband sues for a divorce, or asks the passage of an act to divorce him from his wife, he is required to make a

SUITS PRO. Suits or actions for breach of faith in civil contracts which the clergy, in the reign of Stephen, introduced into the spiritual courts, by means of which they took cogn

In old English law. A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing given, or delivered. Spelman.

The law. LAGAN (Saxon liggam., ouba/re). Goods found at such a distance from shore that it was uncertain what coast they would be carried to, and therefore belonging to the finder.

In old E3ngliah law. A law day; a day of open court.

A juror. Cowell.

In old Bngll Bh law. Law; also used to express the territory or district in which a particular law was in force, as Dena lagu, the district under Danish law, etc LAHL8L1T (Saxon).

A layman.

The name of a fine imposed upon those who committed adultery or fornication. Tech. Diet.

Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. In the United States the division of the people into clergy and laity is not authorized by law, but is merely conventional.

Fresh-water lakes are bodies of standing water distinguishable from rivers chiefly by the fact that they have no current. The fact that there is a current from a higher to a lower

The law favors a man's life. Y. B. Hen. VI. 51. LA LEY FAVOUR L'INHERITANCE d'un home. The law favors a man's inheritance. Y. B. Hen. VI. 51. LA LEY VOIT PLUS TOST SUFFER UN mischl

A degree given by archbishop of Canterbury. 1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 381, note. Although he can confer all degrees given by the two uniyersities, the graduates have many privileges '

A lame duck is one who is unable to meet his contracts in the exchange,— an insolvent Biddle, Br. 71. The expression "lame duck" would be actionable if applied to a person on the_

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

In feudal law. Vassals who were obliged to Work for their lord one day in the week, from Michaelnjas to autumn, either with fork, spade, or flail, at the lord's option. Spelman.

or LANDS. A term comprehending any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever; as, meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furzes, and heath. 170 111. 266. An estate of frank tenement at

A witness to character. LANDBOC (Saxon, from land, and hoe, a writing). In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or. held. Spelman; Cowell; 1 Reeve, H

or LAND CHEAP (land, and Saxon ceapan, to buy). A fine payable in money or cattle, upon the alienation of land, within certain manors and liberties. Cowell. LAND CLAUSES CONSOLIDAT

The name of a court in the city of St. Louis, state of Missouri, having sole jurisdiction in St. Louis county in suits respecting lands, and in actions of ejectment, do^er, partiti

A landlord. LANDEGANDMAN (Saxon.) In old English law. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman. LANDIMER (Scotch; Lat. agrimensor). In old Scotch law. A me

In Saxon law. Services and duties laid upon all that held land, including the three obligations called "trinoda necessitas" (g. v.); quasi land rights. Cowell.

In Old Law. The lord or proprietor of land, who, under the feudal system, retained the dominion or ultimate property of the feud, or fee of the land; while his grantee, who had onl

A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For. removing a landmark an action lies. 1 Thomas, Co. Litt. 787. See "Monument."

A person whose business it is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings

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

In Swedish law. A body toms of every province; being analogous to the common law of England. 1 Bl. Comm. 66.

A tax on beneficial proprietor of land. So far as a tenant is beneficial proprietor, and no farther, does it rest on him. It has superseded all other methods of taxation in Great B

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

(Scotch). Rural.

The medium for the communication of perceptions and ideas. Spoken language is that wherein articulate sounds are used. Written language is that wherein written characters are used,

(Law Lat.) In old English practice. Sickness; a confirmed and lingering sickness, as distinguished from a transient indisposition. Bract, fol. 340, 344b, 352b, 357b. Skene defines

In Spanish law. A certain contribution in money paid by the grandees and other high officers in lieu of the soldiers they ought to furnish government in time of war.

A marble stone about twelve feet long and three feet broad, placed at the upper end of Westminster Hall, where was likewise a marble chair erected on the middle thereof, in which t

To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees, to slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. See "Lapsed Devise"; "Lapsed Legacy." In Ecclesiastical Law. The transfer, by

A devise which has lapsed, or does not take effect because of the death of devisee before testator.

A legacy which, on account of the death of the legatee before the period arrives for the payment of the legacy, lapses or deviates from the course prescribed by the testator, and f

A patent issued to petitioner for land; a patent for which land to another party has lapsed through neglect of patentee. The lapse patent relates to date of original patent, and ma

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

A statutory offense existing in one or two states, consisting of the fraudulent conversion of property by a bailee thereof. The offense is covered by the ordinary statutes against

{LargeuT. Law Fr. from large.) Breadth. According to the breadth and length. Britt. c. 63, c. 103.

(Lat.) Large; broad; comprehensive. Bract, fol. 37b.

or LARUN. In old English law. A thief; thieves. Petits larons, petty thieves. Britt. c. 29.

In Connecticut. A term including those wanton acts between persons of different sexes, who are not married to each other, that flow from the exercise of lustful passions, and which

or LASHLITE. A kind of forfeiture during the government of the Danes in England. Enc. Lond. LAST (Law Lat. lastus, lestus). In English law. A burden; a weight or measure of various

The name of a code of Spanish law. It is sometimes called las siete partidas, or the seven parts, from the number of its principal divisions. It is a compilation from the civil law

or LESTAGE. 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 pai

The last antecedent is the last word which can be made an antecedent, without impairing the meaning of a sentence. 190 Mich, 313.

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

He to whom the lands come if they escheat for want of lawful heirs, viz., sometimes the lord of whom the lands are held, sometimes the king. Bracton, lib. 5, c. 17.

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

That of which a person dies. The last sickness includes the whole of the sickness of which the person dies, no matter of how long duration. 8 Me. 167. The expenses of this sickness

Gross negligence is equal to fraud.

Recently; last. 7 Cal. 226. Defunct. 17 Ala. 190.

This word has been held to have "a very large retrospect, as we say 'lately deceased' of one dead ten or twenty years." 2 Show. 294. LATENS (Lat. from latere, to lie hid). Latent;

One which does not appear from the words of an instrument, but only from the application of the words to the subject matter. See 117 U. S. 221. A latent ambiguity may arise from th

One kept for twenty years or more in a man's scrutoire or strong box, accompanied by no distinctive possession. 7 N. J. Law, 177.

One not discoverable by external examination. 13 N. Y. 9. The term is used both in personal injury law, and in the law of sales. In Personal Injury Law. An employee (108 Ind. 286)

The support of land by the adjoining land; so called in contradistinction from "subjacent support," that of the soil beneath. The right to such lateral support exists as a natural

or LATH (Law Lat. laestrum or leda). A division of certain counties in England, intermediate between a county or shire and a hundred, sometimes containing three or four hundreds, a

LATHREVE, or LEIDgreve (Saxon.) An ofllcer under the Saxon government, who had authority over a lathe. Cowell; 1 Bl. Comm. 116.

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

An important language in the law; being the language not only of the civil and canon law, but of the early European codes, of much of the ancient common law of England and Scotland

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

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.

Larceny or theft. Reg. Orig. 268b. A thing stolen. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 7. The liberty of infangthef, or privilege of judging and executing thieves.

Larceny.

In Civil Law. To name; to cite or qfuote; to show one's title or authority. Calv. Lex. In Feudal Law. To determine or pass upon judicially. Feud. lib. 1, tit. 22. Lattdcmientum, th

In Roman law. Testimony adduced in favor of the character of an accused person. Halifax, Anal. bk. 3, c 13.

or LAUDATIOREM (Lat. a laudando domino). A fiftieth part of the purchase money, or (if no Bale) of the value of the estate • paid to the landlord {dominus) by a new emphyteuta on h

An arbitrament or award. Rapalje & L. In Old Scotch Law. Sentence or Judgment; dome or doom. 1 Pitc Crim. Tr. pt 2, p. 8. LAUGEMANNI (Law Lat.) Lords of manors, according to Coke's

Frank pledge. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 17. LAUGHLESMAN (Saxon). In old English law. An outlaw. Bracton, fol. 125.

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

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

In old Scotch law. A pledge or surety for appearance.

In Scotch law. Security for the peaceful behavior of a party; security to keep the peace. This process was much resorted to by the government of Charles II. for political purposes.

In Louisiana. Costs.

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

The day fixed in a mortgage or defeasible deed for the payment of the debt secured. 24 Ala. (N. S.) 149; 10 Conn. 280. The phrase formerly marked the time when all legal rights wer

Prom the time of William the Norman down to that of Edward III., all public proceedings and documents in England, including the records of the courts, the arguments of counsel, and

Legal; that which is not contrary to law; that which is sanctioned or permitted by law; that which is in accordance with law. 101 111. 215. The terms stance sanctioned or prohibite

Majority; usually the age of twenty-one years.

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

Money which is a legal tender in payment of debts; a. g., gold and silver coined at the mint. 2 Salk. 446; 5 Mod. 7; 3 Ind. 358; 2 How. (U. S.) 244; 3 How. (U. S.) 717; 16 Ark. 83.

Mutilating the forefeet of mastiffs, to prevent them from running after deer. 3 Bl. Comm. 71.

Edward III. substituted the Latin language for the Norman French in the records, and the English in other proceedings. The Latin was used by virtue of its being the language of sch

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.

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 & W.