A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In English law. The principal court of the forest, held before the chief justice in eyre, or chief itinerant judge, or his deputy,— to hear and determine all pleas and causes arisi

J nsticiarins, justitiarius, justitia, I. I, Justicier, l.fr. In old English law. A justice or justicer. Jnsticlarii Itinerantes: justices in eyre. Justiciarii residentes: justices

The supreme criminal court of Scotland, composed of five lords of Session, with the lord president or justice-clerk as president The justices hold three circuits, 'and an appeal li

To make out, or establish according to law,— particularly the sufficiency of bail.

sc In Scots law. In ancient grants, the fowls or animals payable to the superior; in modern practice, the poultry, etc., payable by a tenant to his landlord in terms of his lease.

brit A hundred villages; a hundred; a division of a county in Wales.

In English law. The court or seat of the marshal, — a court originally held before the steward and marshal of the king's house, and instituted to administer justice between the kin

In Scots law. An action brought to rescind, annul or cancel a deed or other instrument in writing.

In English law. The right to exact a toll of ships in harbor; the money paid as such toU.

To maintain; to retain; to harbor; to have in possession. Keep house: as applied to a trader, to secrete one's self in one's house to avoid one's creditors. Keep liquor: to have in

One who keeps; one who harbors or has in possession; an owner or proprietor; a person in charge, as of attached personalty. In English law. Keeper or lord keeper of the great seal:

sc. In Scots law. The act of the sheriff in ascertaining the portion of the husband's lands which belong to the widow in right of terce, or dower.

reproba, I. In old English law. Bad or spurious, reprobate,— a term applied to money which might be rejected or refused.

I I. In old English law. To fortify or embattla Kernellare domum: to build a house with a wall or tower kenielled or crenelle.

I. fr. In old English law. To go; to go back; to resort to; to adopt on failure of other proceedings.

I. I. In old English law. To suspect murdro: accused of murder.

In old English law. A guardian, warden or keeper. In old Scots law. Keys of court: certain officers of courts.

The stealing and carrying away, or secreting of a person; an aggravated kind of abduction.

In the civil law. A servitude annexed to a rural estate.

Relation or relationship by blood. Kindred: persons legitinaately related by blood.

In modern times, and up to the passing of the judicature act, 36 & 37 Vict, c. 66, the highest court of common law in England, consisting of a chief justice and four puisne justice

kinsbot, sax. In Saxon law. A composition or satisfaction paid for killing a kinsman. Kirby's or Kirkby's quest In English law. A record in the exchequer of a survey of all the lan

The act with which the ceremony of taking an oath by laying the hand upon the gospels concludes.

A title of honor next beneath that of a peer or baronet. Knight of the shire: a member of parliament representing a county or shire, in contradistinction to a burgess, who represen

A form of public address, of great antiquity, with which many written instruments still begin.

v. Scienter.

qaai non conceduntur de directo, /. Many things are allowed indirectly which are not allowed directly. Multa in jure communi contra ratioucm disputandi, pro communi iitilitate intr

I. I. In old English law. Inferior country tenants, churls, or chorls, who held cottages and lands by services of ploughing, and the like.

I. In the civil laiv. The civil reputation which belonged to the Roman citizen. £xitDS, I. In old English law. Issue or offspring; a child or cliildren; issues; the rents or profit

brit. In old English law. Assemblies. L. An abbreviation of Latin, law, lord. L. C: Lord Chancellor. L. F.: law French; levari facias. L. L.: law Latin. L. R.: law reports. L. S.:

In English law. A slip of paper or writing, for an appended seal; a

In the broadest sense, any kind physicial; in a narrower sense, the monly used in statutes, physical In old English law. Labor a jury: deavor to influence them in thoir

A person who gains a living

lachesse, lasches, I fr. and something which by law one is asserting a right

In Scots law. A conveyance to an heir of a part of his inheritance without valuable consideration, upon which he becomes liable for all debts contracted by the grantor prior theret

?. I. In Saxon law. A purgation, purged himself of an accusation; a for draining marshy grounds. In old English law. A court of justice

bill of. v. Bill

I Suits for breach in the ecclesiastical courts. They were of Clarendon.

hlafordswice, sax. In against a lord; the betrayal of a

lagemannns, I. l, law-man; a lawful man.

sax. In old English law. Goods a distance from the shore, under ful where they were intended to come with Ligan, q. v.

In old English law. A found floating in the sea at circumstances rendering it doubtto land. Not to be confounded or lawyer. laxlite, laslit, sax. or daru In or transgression of law

sax. In Saxon law. A law-man,

lahslite, lagslit, laghslit, Saxon or Anglo-Danish law. A breach ishment for breaking the law.

laicnm, 1.1. In, old English ecclesiastical; a layman.- Laicnm tenementnm: a lay tenement

layrwit,(leirwyte, legerwit, law. A fine for committing adultery

I. fr. To transfer; to leave.

I. fr. To prevent; to omit or or parchment affixed to a deed copy of a writ in the exchequer. of exertion, whether mental or sense in which the word is comexertion only. v. Hard la

I. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one's title or authority. In feudal law. To determine or pass upon judicially.

I. In the civil law. A praising or commending; a speaking in one's favor; testimony in favor of the character of an accused person.

sax. In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or held.

In old English law. A customary fine, paid at every alienation of land within certain manors or within the liberty of certain boroughs.

sax. In old English law. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor.

landiminm, I. In the civil lato. A sum paid by a new emphyteuta who acquires the emphyteusis, not as heir, but as a singular successor.

landgavel, sax. In old English law. A tax or rent issuing out of land; a quit rent

In old English law. A limit or boundary of land.

A place on the bank by navigable water for the lading and unlading of vessels, and the receiving and discharging of passengers on the same.

1. 1. In Saxon lavx Services and duties laid on all who held laud.

A person of whom lands or tenements are held, subject to the payment of rent Landlord's warrant: written authority from a landlord to levy on property of the tenant and to make sal

A terre-tenant

In English law. A person whose business it is to overlook certain parts of an estate.

In English law. A tax on land, which has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property.

A person who actually possesses land; a terre-tenant

I. I. In old Scots law. Sentence or judgment; dome or doom.

I. I. In old English law. Lords of manors.

I. Sick in prison; a sheriff's return to a capias.

I. I. In old English law. Sickness; a confirmed and lingering sickness.

I. Praise be to God; an old heading to bills of exchanga Lan^hlesnian, I. In old English law. An outlaw.

In English ecclesiastical law. A slip or omission; a species of forfeiture, whereby the right of presentation to a church accrues to the ordinary by neglect of the patron to presen

To fall, slip or sink; to fail of its object; to become void. Lapsed: become ineffectual; failed of its destination. Lapsed devise: a devise which fails, or takes no effect, in con

I. fr., Largus, I. Large; broad; comprehensive.

laroun, laran, I. fr. A thief.

hi English law. A burden; a weight or measure of various commodities; a court held in the marshes of East Kent, in which ordei's were made and taxes were levied for the preservatio

Latest; most recent Last will: a term, according to Lord Coke, more pioperly used where lands and tenements are devised. In English law. Last heir: he to whom lands come by escheat

In old English law. A custom exacted in certain fairs and mai'kets to carry things where one will; the burthen or ballast of a ship; a kind of tax or tribute; a Gustom paid for war

lestus, I. I In old English law. A last; a weight or measure of hides, wool and other articles.

1. Gross fault or neglect; extreme negligence or carelessness; — dolo aiqulparatnr: gross negligence is equivalent to fraud; — plane dolo comparabitur: gross negligence may clearly

I, Latent. Hidden; not on the surface. Latens ambiguitas: an ambiguity not evident, not on the surface.

I. I. In old English law. To lie sideways; literally, to side.

leth. In English law. A larger division of a county, intermediate between the shire and hundred, containing several hundreds.

lathreve, leidgreve, sax. In Saxon law. An ofi Bcer who had authority over a latha

I. In Eoman law. An estate of large extent, made up of an aggregation of small estates.

The language not only of the civil and the canon law, but of the early European codes, of much of the old common law of England and Scotland, and of a large portion of the public,

I. In the civil law. An inferior kind of freedmen, who did not have the full privilege of Roman citizens, but only what was called the lesser liberty.

I. In old English law. To keep out of the way, to avoid being served with process; not to appear when summoned. Latitat: he lurks or lies hid; a writ which issued in personal actio

I. I In the civil and old English lam. A lurking, or concealment of the pei-son; a lying hid.

I. To the bearer of these presente.

I. In the civil and old English law. A robber; a thief.

I. In old English law. Larceny or theft; a thing stolen; the liberty of infangenthef.

In the most general sense, a rule of action prescribed by a superior; a rule of human action; a system of such rules. In a stricter sense, a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by th

Authorized by law; conformable to law; in accordance with law. Lawful man: a man free and capable of bearing oath. Lawful money of the United States: lawful money of any state or t

To allege or state in pleading. Lay damages: to state at the conclusion of a declaration the sum claimed in the action. Lay the venue: to state the county as that in which the plai

I. fr. and eng. Not clerical or ecclesiastical. Lay corporation: a corporation composed of laymen, or established for temporal purposes. Lay days: days allowed in charter-parties f

lays gens, lais gens, I. fr. In old English law. Lay people; the common people or laity; a jury; jurors. Le, I. fr. In old English law. The. Used anciently in the composition of na

To conduct or direct; to conduct in the way of duty. Lead a use: to specify or direct the use to which a conveyance is to operate. Lead a witness: to suggest by the mode of interro

I. Jr. In old English law. Lawful; loyal; liege; a liege. Leal matrimoine: lawful marriage.

leanment, I fr. Lawfully.

/. /r. Legality; the condition of a legalis homo, or lawful man.

t fr. Sufficiency in law; legality.

sc. < In old Scots law. Lawful