The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The king will consider of it. This phrase is used by the English monarch when he gives his dissent to an act passed by the lords and commons. The same formula was used by the late

The king wijl deliberate on it. This is the formula which the late French king used when he intended to veto an act of the legislative assembly. 1 Tou Uier, Dr. Civ. note 42. LE RO

Laese Majesty. (Law Pr. leze majest.) The old English and Scotch translation of liesa majestas, or high treason. 2 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 6. See "Leze Majesty."

et non la loi des fictions. Fictions arise from the law, and not law from fictions. LES LOIS NE SE CHARGENT DE PUNIR que les actions exteriures. Laws do not undertake to punish oth

In civil law. A term used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of situation, by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutativ

He to whom a lease is mades he who holds an estate by virtue of a lease. See "Lease."

He who grants a lease. See "Lease."

or LASTAGE (Saxon last, burden). A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley. LESWES- Lesues. Pastures. Domesday. Co. Litt. 4b. A term

Hindrance; obstacle; obstruction. To lease; to grant the use and possession of a thing for compensation. It is the correlative of "hire." See "Hire." LETRADO (Spanish). In Spanish

He who, being the owner of a

A person employed to carry letters from the post office to the persons to whom they are addressed. Provisions were made by the act of March 3, 1851 (11 U. S. St. at Large, 691), fo

In English law. A request addressed to a peer, peeress, or lord of parliament, against whom a bill has been filed, desiring the defendant to appear and answer the bill. It is issue

A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written; generally informing him of some commercial transaction by the writer of the letter

In Scotch law. The decree or warrant of the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings in the matter, and advocating the act

A written instrument, by which one or more persons, called the "constituents," authorize one or more other persons, called the "attorneys," to do some lawful 'act for or.instead, a

In international law. A written instrument addressed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a state to the sovereign or state to whom a public minister is sent, certifying his app

A letter whereby one person requests another to advance money or give credit to a third, and agrees to reimburse or indemnify the person making the advance, or giving the credit. A

An instrument or writing made by creditors to their insolvent debtor, by which they bind themselves to allow him a longer time than he had a right to, for the pajrment of his debts

A commission granted by the government to a private individual, to take the property of a foreign state, or of the citizens or subjects of such state, as a reparation for an injury

A written document addressed by the executive of one government to the executive of another, informing the latter that a minister sent by the former to him has been recalled.

An instrument given by one person to another, addressed to a third, in which the bearer is represented as worthy of credit. 1 Bell, Comm. (5th Ed.) 371; 3 Term R. 51; 7 Cranch (U.

A docuhe was accredited. It is addressed to the executive of the minister's country. This is in reply to the "letter of recall."

Epistles; despatches; written messages, usually on paper, folded up and sealed, and sent by one person to another. 1 Caines (N. Y.) 582. LETTERS AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DEfuncti. In pr

Close letters are grants of the king, and, being of private concern, they are thus distinguished from "letters patent."

An instrument in writing, granted by the judge or officer having jurisdiction and power of granting such letters, thereby giving the admipistrator (naming him) "full power to admin

See "Fire and Sword."

In English ecclesiastical law. An instrument by which a judge of an inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in favor of a court of appeal immediately superior to it. L

The name of an Instrument granted by the government to convey a right to the patentee; as, a patent for a tract of land; or to secure to him a right which he already possesses, as,

An instrument sent in the name and by the authority of a judge or court to another, requesting the latter to cause to be examined, upon interrogatories filed in a cause depending b

The formal instrument in writing granted to an executor by the judge or officer having jurisdiction of the probate of wills, stating his appointment as executor, and authorizing hi

In American law. The act of awarding a contract. This term is much used in the United States, and most frequently in relation to contracts to construct railroads, canals, or other

LEUGA, or LEGA (Law Lat.) In Old French Law. A league, consisting of fifteen hundred paces. Spelman. In Old English Law. A league or mlie of a thousand paces. Domesday Book; Spelma

Leodis. (Law Lat.) In old European law. A vassal; a liege man or feudal dependant; a retainer; a feudal tenant; a crown vassal or baron; alasmian; a common or illiterate person, Sp

Same as levant et couchant. Applied by Bracton to villeins, who lived on their lord's estate. Bracton, fol. 6b. LEVARI FACIAS (Lat. that you cause to be levied). In Practice. A wri

An old writ directed to the sheriff for levying the remnant of a partly-satisfied debt upon the lands and tenements or chattels of the debtor. Cowell. LEVATO VELO (Lat.) An express

That which may be levied.

A husband's brother. Vicat.

Those degrees of kindred, set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus, within which persons are prohibited to marry.

To raise. Webster. To levy a nuisance, i. e., to raise or do a nuisance (9 Coke, 55); to levy a fine, i. e., to raise or acknowledge a fine (2 Bl. Comm. 357; 1 Steph. Comm. 236); t

In criminal law. The assembling of a body of men for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable object; and all who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from th

Llcentiousnees; an offense against the public economy, when of an open and notorious character; as, by frequenting houses of 111 fame, which is an indictable offense, or by some gr

The Aelian Sentian law, respecting wills, proposed by the consuls Aelius and Sentius, and passed A. U. 756, restraining a master from manumitting his slaves in certain cases. Calv.

In Roman law. The agrarian law. A law proposed by Tiberius Gracchus, A. U. 620, that no one should possess more than five hundred acres of land, and that three commissioners should

One who is an infamous, perjured, or outlawed person. Bracton, lib. 4, c. 19.

The law of England; the common law; or, the curtesy of England. LEX ANGLIAE EST LEX MISERICORdiae. The law of England is a law of mercy. 2 Inst. 315. LEX ANGLIAE NON PATITUR ABSURd

In old English and Norman law. Apparent or manifest law, A term used to denote the trial by battel or duel, and the trial by ordeal, "lex" having the sense of process of law (proce

In the Roman law. The Aquilian law; a celebrated law passed on the proposition of the tribune C. Aquilius Callus, A. U. 672, regulating the compensation to be made for that kind of

In the Roman law. The Atilian law; a law passed on the proposition of the tribune L. Atilius Regulus, A. U. 443, authorizing the praetor, with a majority of the tribunes, to appoin

In the Roman law. The Atinian law; a law declaring that the property in things stolen should not be acquired by prescription (usucapione). Inst. 2. 6. 2; Adam, Rom. Ant. 207. LEX B

The barbarian law. A term applied to the laws of those nations that were not in subjection to the Roman empire, such as the Burgundian and Salian law, the law of the Lombards, etc.

The law of the Bergundians, a barbarous nation of Europe, first compiled and published by Gundebald, one of the last of their kings, about A. D. 500. Spelman; Butler, Hor. Jur. 84.

In Roman law. A law by which a debtor and creditor might agree, where a thing had been pledged to the latter to secure the debt, that, if the debtor did not pay at the day, the ple

The common law. See "Jus Commune."

probationem non recipit. The law admits no proof against that which it presumes. Lofft, 573. LEX CORNELIA DE FALSO (or FALSis). In Roman law. The Cornelian law respecting forgery o

In Roman law. The Cornelian law respecting injuries; a law passed by the dictator L. Cornelius Sylla, providing remedies for certain injuries, as for battery, forcible entry of ano

The law of the Danes; Dane-law or Dane-lage. Spelman. LEX DE FUTURO; JUDEX DE PRAETErito. The law provides for the future; the judge for the past. LEX DEFICERE NON POTEST IN JU8tit

The proof of a thing which one denies to be done by him, where another aifirms it; defeating the assertion of his adversary, and showing it to be against reason or probability. Thi

The law is from eyerlasting. Branch, Princ.

Law is the dictate of reason. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 117.

Law la a rule of right.

QUAE JUBET quae sunt utilia et necessaria, et contraria prohibet. Law is the perfection of reason, which commands what is useful and necessary, and forbids the contrary. Co. Litt.

JUBENS honesta, et prohibens contraria. Law is a sacred sanction, commanding what is right, and prohibiting the contrary. 2 Inst. 587. LEX EST TUTISSIMA CASSIS; SUB clypeo legis ne

The law and custom of parliament The houses of parliament constitute a court not only of legislation, but also of justice, and have their own rules, by which the court itself and t

The law and custom of the realm; one of the names of the common law.,

See "Falcidian Law."

The law favors dower. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 105. LEX FINGIT UBI SUBSISTIT AEQUITas. Law feigns where equity subsists. 11 Coke, 90; Branch, Princ. LEX FORI (Lat. the law of the forum). T

The law of the Franks; promulgated by Theodoric I., son of Clovis I., at the same time with the law of the Alemanni and Bavarians. Spelman. This was a different collection from the

The law of the Frisians, promulgated about the middle of the eighth century. Spelman. LEX FURIA (or FUSIA) CANINIA. In Roman law. The Furian Caninian law; a law passed in the consu

The Ck)thic law, or law of the Goths. First promulgated in writing, A. D. 466. Spelman.

The Hostilian law, passed in the consulship of A. Hostilius, authorizing actions of theft to be brought in the name of captives or persons absent on the business of the state. Inst

The Imperial or Soman law. Quoted under this name by Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 15; Id. lib. 3, c. 10, i 3. LEX INTENDIT VICINUM VICINI FACta scire. The law presumes that one neighbor

In Roman law. The Julian law of majesty; a law promulgated by Julius Caesar, and again published with additions by Augustus, comprehending all the laws before enacted to punish tra

The law of the place where an offense was committed.

The law of the place where payment or performance of a contract is, by its terms, to be made. LEX LONGOBARDORUM (Lat.) The name of an ancient code in force among the Lombards. It c

Manifest or open law; the trial by duel or ordeal. The same as lex apparens (q. v.). LEX MERCATORIA (Lat.) That system of laws which is adopted by all commercial nations, and which

The law does wrong to no one. Branch, Princ.

NEmini facit injuriam. The law never works an injury, or does him a wrong. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 22.

NIL JUBETy^ frustra. The law does nothing and commands nothing in vain. 3 Bulst. 279; Jenk. Cent. Cas. 17.

The law is not to be violated by the king. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 7.

The law requires nothing impossible. Co. Litt. 231b; Hob. 96; 1 Bouv. Inst, note 851.

The law does not regard small matters. Hob. 88. LEX NON DEFICIT IN JUSTITIA EXIbenda. The law does not fail in showing justice. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 31.

SED ARbitrlo boni viri permittit. The law does not define exactly, but trusts in the judgment of a good man. 9 Mass. 475. LEX NON FAVET VOTIS DELICATOrum. The law favors not the wi

QUIA inutilis labor stultus. The law commands not useless things, because useless labor is foolish. Co. Litt. 197; 5 Coke, 89a. LEX NON REQUIRIT VERIFICARE quod apparet curiae. The

(Lat.) Law not written; unwritten law; a law originating plied to the common law of England, not in the literal sense of an unwritten or oral law, but in that of a law not derived

In Roman law. The Papian Poppaean law; a law proposed by the consuls Papius and Poppaeus at the desire of Augustus, A. U. 762, enlarging the lex Praetoria (q. v.). Inst. 3. 8. 2; H

A prior statute shall give place to a later. Mackeld. Civ. Law, 5; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 27.

In Roman law. The Praetorian law; a law by which every f reedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety to his patron. Inst. 3. 8. 1.

NON RESPICIT. The law looks forward, not backward. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 284. See "Retrospective Law."

The law punishes falsehood. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 15.

A law by which it was claimed that the legislative power was transferred by the Roman people to the emperor. Inst. 1, 2. 6. Whether such a law was passed has been doubted. 1 Kent,

PUGNANtla, incongrua. The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incongruous things. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 133, 140, 176.

The law disapproves of delay.

Law regards equity. See 14 Q. B. 504, 511, 512.

The Rhodian law, particularly the fragment of it on the subject of jettison {de jactu), preserved in the Pandects. Dig. 14. 2. 1; 3 Kent, Comm. 232, 233.

Purgation by oath. Leg. H. 1. who settled in Gaul in the fifth centiiry. It is the oldest of the barbarian codes,! being said to have been framed about A. D. 422. The most celebrat

ID CUSTODI. ri oportet quod moribus et consuetudlne Inductum est; et, si qua in re lioc defecerit, tunc id quod proximum et consequens el est; et, si id non appareat, tunc Jus quo

The law will always give a remedy. 3 Bouv. Inst, note 2411; Bac. Abr. "Actions in General" (B); Branch, Princ; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 181; 12 Adol. & E. 266; 7 Q. B. 451.

Modern law Latin for "the law of the place where property is situated." The general rule is that lands and other imihovables are governed by the l&x situs, i. e., by the law of the

The law regards the order of nature. Co. Litt. 197; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 231.

The laws succor the ignorant. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 15.