The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The law assists minors. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 67. LEX TALIONIS (Lat.) The law of retaliation, an example of which is given in the law of Moses, — an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,

The law speaks to all with one mouth. 2 Inst. 184.

NON DORMIENTIbus subvenit. Law assists the wakeful, not the sleeping. 1 Story, Cent. (4th Ed.) 502.

The Welsh law; the law of Wales. Blount.

The law of the Visigoths, or Western Goths, who settled in Spain; first reduced to writing A. D. 466. They were made by Euric, amended by Chindaswindus and Recaswindus. A revision

In old English law. The civil or Roman law. Y. B. H. 8 Edw. III. 42. Otherwise termed ley escripte, the written law. Y. B. 10 Edw. III. 24.

In Spanish law. Laws of the style; a book of explanations of the Fuero Real, to the number of two hundred and fifty-two, formed under the authority of Alonzo X. and his son Sancho,

Wager of law; an offer to make an oath denying the cause of action of the plaintiflF, confirmed by compurgators (q. v.), which oath used to be allowed in certain cases. When it was

An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion. See "I«se Majesty." Ul. LO. An abbreviation of licentia lo-

Responsibility; the state of one who is bound in law and 'justice to do something which may be enforced by action. This liability may arise from contracts either express or implied

In Practice. A written statement by a plaintiff, in ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks to obtain in a suit. Law, Ecc. Law, 17;

The party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff in actions in the common-law courts.

A party against whom a libel has been filed in proceedings in an ecclesiastical court or in admiralty, corresponding to the defendant in a common-law suit. LIBELLUS (Lat.) — 1 — In

In the civil law. The statement of a plaintiff's claim in a petition presented to the magistrate, who directed an olficer to deliver it to the defendant. LIBELLUS FAMOSUS (Lat.) A

In Scotch law. The instrument which contains the charge against a person accused of a crime. Libels are of two kinds, namely, indictments and criminal letters. Every libd assumes t

Constituting a libel.

To lose one's free law (called the villainous judgment) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those land

In the Civil Law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calv. Lex. In Old English Law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels of jurors,

In Old Scotch Law. Livery; a fee given to a servant or officer. Skene de Verb. Sign. Money, meat, drink, clothes, etc., yearly given and delivered by the lord to his domestic serva

In civil law. The extinguishment of a contract, by which he who was bound becomes free or liberated. Wolff. Dr. Nat. § 749. Synonymous with "payment." Dig. 50. 16. 47.

In Saxon Law. Freemen; the possessors of allodial lands. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. law, 5. In the Civil Law. Children. The term included "grandchildren." LIBERI CHASEA (or CHACIA) (Law L

Liberty; freedom; a privilege; a franchise.

Church liberty, or ecclesiastical immunity. LIBERTAS EST NATURALIS FACULtas ejus quod cuique facere libet, nisi quod de jure aut vi prohibetur. Liberty is the natural power of doin

Liberty is an inestimable good. Dig. 50. 17. 106; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 51, § 13. LIBERTAS NON RECIPIT AESTIMAtionem. Freedom does not admit a valuation. Bracton, 14, LIBERTAS OMNIBUS

A writ lying for a citizen or burgess, impleaded contrary to his liberty, to have his privilege allowed. Reg. Orig. 262. LIBERTATIBUS EXIGENDIS IN ITINEre. An ancient writ, whereby

or LIBERTINL In Roman law. The condition of those who, having been slaves, had been made free. 1 Brown, Civ. Law, 99. There is some distinction between these words. By libertua was

A destroyer of liberty.

Privileged districts exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction.

The right to print and publish the truth, from good motives and for justifiable ends. 3 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 394. The right to print without previous license or restraint, subject t

A privilege to go out of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons witibin certain limits, and there reside. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22.

The liberty of having a court of one's own. Thus,' cer- LIBERUM CORPUS AESTIMATIONEM non recipit. The body of a freeman does i)Ot admit of valuation. Dig. 9. 3. 7, LIBERUM EST CUIQ

Free service; service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called servitium liherum armorum. Somn. Gavelkind, p. 56; Jacob; 4 Coke, 9. Service not unbecoming characte

In old English law. Free socage. Bracton, fol. 207; 2 Bl. Comm. 61, 62.

In Real Law. Freehold; frank tenement. 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1690; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 46. In Pleading, A plea in justification by the defendant in an action of trespass, by which he

In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particularly that kind which consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philters,

In Saxon law. Bewitching any person; also a barbarous sacrifice. LIBRA ARSA (Law Lat.) In old English law. A pound burned; that is, melted, or assayed by melting, to test its purit

In Spanish law. Lawyer or advocate. By a decree of the Spanish government of 6th November, 1843, it was declared that all persons who have obtained diplomas of "Licentiates in Juri

A person to whom a license has been granted. Invitation. In a strict and legal sense there is a distinction between a mere licensee and one who comes upon the premises of another b

The grantor of a license.

Lat. [from licere, to be lawful.] License; liberty; permission. LICENTIA CONCORDANDl (Lat. leave to agree). One of the formal steps in the levying a fine. When an action is brought

Imparlance.

In old English law. Liberty of rising; a liberty or space of time given by the court to a tenant, who is essoined, de malo lecti, in a real action, to arise out of his bed. Also, t

One who has license to practice any art or faculty.

A writ or warrant directed to keeper of port of Dover, or other seaport, commanding him to let the person who has this license of the king pass over sea. Reg. Orig. 93,

The doing what one pleases, without regard to the rights of others. It differs from liberty in this, that the latter is restrained by natural or positive law, and consists in doing

or LICERI (Lat.) In Roman law. To offer a price for a thing; to bid for it. LICET (Lat.) It is lawful; not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, q

FORMULA nisi Juris obstet. Lawful acts may well be fused into one, unless some form of law forbid; e. g., two having a right to convey, each a moiety, may unite and convey the whol

In Spanish law. The sale made at public auction by coproprietors, or coheirs, of their joint property which is not susceptible of being advantageously divided in kind. LICITARE (La

In civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which coheirs or other coproprietors of a thing in common and undivide

In Roman law. A bidder at a sale.

See "Lynch Law." LIEGE (from liga, a bond, or litis, a man wholly at command of his lord). In feudal law. Bound by a feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who o

Homage based on allegiance, as opposed to that which implied merely an acknowledgment of tenure. The former was due to the sovereign alone, while the latter was rendered to any sup

A sovereign; a superior lord. LIEGE POUSTIE (legitima potestas). In Scotch law. That state of health which gives a person full power to dispose of, mortis causa, or otherwise, his

He that oweth allegience. Cowell.

or LEGER. A resident ambassador.

or LIEGE PEOPLE. Subjects.

A French word which originally signified a string, tie, or band, and in the metaphorical sense in which the law now uses it, it signifies the hold or claim which one person has upo

The commencement of a covenant stating the names of the covenantors and covenantees, and the character of the covenant, whether joint or several,

One who holds or owns a lien.

LEU, LIU, or LYU (Law Fr.; from Lat, locus). A place, Britt. c. 27. LIEU CONUS (Law Fr.) In old pleading. A known place; a place well knov?n and generally taken notice of by those

This word has now a narrower meaning than it formerly had. Its true meaning is a deputy, a substitute, from the French lieu, (place or post) and tenant (holder). Among civil office

LIBERTY AND PROPERTY. This phrase embraces every personal, political and civil right or liberty which any person within the state may possess, including the right to labor, to make

An anneal income to be paid during the continuation of a particular life. See "Annuity."

An insurance of a time. On the death of the person whose life has been insured during the time for which it is insured, the insurer is bound to pay to the beneficiary the money agr

An estate whose duration is limited to the life of the party holding it, or of some other person; a freehold estate, not of inheritance. 4 Kent, Comm. 23, 25.

A contract of Insurance wherein the insurer agrees to pay a specified sum in the event of the death of a particular person, if it occurs at a time and under circumstances within th

An interest, limited by ^ the term of the life, either of the person in whom the right is vested, or of another.

Letters patent, conferring the dignity of baron for life only, do not enable the grantee to sit and vote in the house of lords, not even with the usual writ of summons to the house

A policy of life insurance.

In Scotch law. A right to use and enjoy a thing during life, the substance of it being preserved. A life rent cannot, therefore, be constituted upon things which perish in the use;

In Scotch law. A tenant for life without wabtfe. Bell, Cict. LIGA (Law Lat.) On old European law. A

or LAGAN. Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea in storms or shipwrecks, and r

The true and faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government. It signifies, also, the territory of a sovereign. See "Allegiance." LIGEANTIA EST QUA

NULLIS claustris coercetur, nullis metis refraenatur, nullis finibus premltur. Natural allegiance is restrained by no barriers, curbed by no bounds, compressed by no limits. 7 Coke

The owner or manager of a lighter; a lighterman is considered as a common carrier. See "Lighters."

Small vessels employed in loading and unloading larger vessels. The owners of lighters are liable like other common carriers for hire. It is a term of the contract on the part of t

Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light than to look out of. 6 J. B. Moore, 47; 9 Bing. 305. See "Ancient Lights." Lamps carried on board vessels,

A tie or bond allegiance. stones are not contained under the name of arms. Bracton, 144b.

In old English, law. A copy, exemplification, or transcript of a court roll or deed. Cowell.

Ordinarily, only a member useful in fight, and the loss of which would amount to mayhem at common law. 1 Bl. Comm. 130. Sometimes metaphorically used for general physical safety. L

WORDS OF. See "Words of Limitation."

In old practice. A certain time prescribed by statute, within which a man was required to allege himself or his ancestor to have been seised of lands sued for by a writ of assize.

Of Actions. The statutory restriction of the time within which action may be brought. Of Criminal Prosecutions. The statutory restriction of the time within which indictment may be

Restricted; bounded; prescrib-

Special administration. See "Administration."

A divorce a meMSttet thoro. See "Divorce."

A general term, opposed to fee simple, and covering all qualified or conditional estates of inheritance in lands. It includes base fees, conditional fees, and fees tail. 2 Bl. Comm

See "Jurisdiction."

One whose title In lands is less than a fee simple.

One wherein the liability of one or more of the members is, by compliance with certain statutory provisions, limited to the amount of their contribution to the capital stock. The t

In Descents. The series of persons who have descended from a common ancestor, placed one under the other, in the order of their birth. It connects successively all the relations by

In a direct line.

That kind of consanguinity which subsists between persons of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other; as between a particular person and his father, grandfather, grea

Descent in a right line, as where an estate descends from an-.cestor to heir in one line of succession, as opposed to collateral descent, which is descent in a transverse or zigzag

A warranty by ancestor from whom the title did or might have come to heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 301; Rawle, Gov. 30; 2 Hilliard, Real Prop. 360. Thus, a warrant by an elder son during lifet

(Lat.) A tongue; speech. Applied, in old English law, to the verdict of a jury. LIQUERE (Lat.) In the civil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory. When a judex was in doubt ho

It is clear or apparent; it appears. Satis liquet, it suificiently appears. 1 Strange, 412.

A liquor compounded of alcohol, water, sugar, and different aromatic substances. 28 Fed. Cas. 141.

To pay; to settle. Webster: 8 Wheat. (U. S.) 322. To ascertain or make certain in amount. 20 Ga. 53. agreed up«n by the parties or is fixed by operation of law. 61 Conn. 568; 15 Qa

Liquidated damages are ascertained damages. 48 III. 408.