A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A conveyance of an estate in lands or tenements (usually in consideration of rent or other annual recompense), less than that of the grantor, for life, for years or at will. Lease

An estate in land for a term of years.

In old Scots law. An of Eense consisting in slanderous speeches, in contempt of the king, his council and proceedings, etc

To die owning, as seised of; to dispose of by wilL

Z. I. In old English law. A lathe-reeve, or chief officer of a latha

In English law. A court of criminal jurisdiction, formerly of much importance, but latterly fallen into disuse.

I. In old English law. That which may be bequeathed.

A bequest of goods and chattels; a gift of personalty by wilL Contingent legacy: a legacy in which no immediate interest passes to the legatee, but the title to which depends on th

sufficient to answer the requirements of the law, as a legal condition, consideration, contract, notice, or obligation; authorized or permitted by law, as legal discretion, interes

I. The king's council at law; the king's council in matters of law.

Z. Z. In' old English law. A lawful man; a person to whom no objection could be made in a court of justice.

I L The quality, character or condition of a legalis homo; behavior according to law; good behavior.

I. In the eiml and old English law. To bequeath; to leave or give by will; to give in anticipation of death.

1. In the civil law. One to whom a thing is bequeathed; a legatee, or legatary.

The peraon to whom a legacy is given. '

In English law. Ecclesiastical laws enacted in national synods held under the cardinals Otho and Othobon, in the reign of Henry III., about 1320 and 1268.

I. A legate; an ambassador, envoy or nuncio. Legates violare contra jus gentium est: to offer violence to ambassadors is against the law of nations.

I. In old English law. A legacy; a gift by will., In the civil law. A legacy; a gift by will; a gift left by a deceased person, to be executed by the heir.

I. In old English law. Law. Legem amittere: to lose the law, or privilege of being admitted to oath. Legem facere: to make law or oath. Legem habere: to have law; to be capable of

L Laws. Leges Angliic: the laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other foreign sysftems. Leges flgendi et reflgendi consnetudo est perlculosissima: the practice

L In the Roman law. Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. Applied to the emperor.

/. I. A person skilled or learned in the law; a lawyer or advocate.

In Scots law. The children's claim out of the free movable estate of their father.

Lawful birth; the condition of being born in wedlock.

I. Lawful power.

Lawfully born; born in lawful wedlock.

To confer legitimacy; to place a child born out of wedlock on the footing of those born in wedlock.

I. In English law. Illegitimacy; lawful birth.

The act of making legitimate; the act of conferring legitimacy on a child born out of wedlock.

I. Lawfully; with authority of law. Legitime imperanti parere necesse est: one who commands lawfully must be obeyed.

I. I. In old English law. Legitimacy; the condition of being lawfully born.

I. Lawful; legitimate. Legitimas hseres et fllins est qnem nupti% demoustrant: a lawful son and heir is he whom the marriage points out to be lawful

I. I. In old English law. He reads as a clerk; the answer made by the ordinary to the question Legit vel nonj importing that the accused could read, and was thus entitled to the be

I. A person skilled in law.,

In Saxon law. An officer who had jurisdiction over a lathe.

1. 1. In old English law. A fugitive or runaway.

I. The lion's partnei'sbip, — a partnership in which one party has all the benefit

/r. Damage; injury; detriment In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract; inequality in contrac

I. fr. and eng. He to whom a lease is made for life, or years, or at will.

/. fr. and eng. He who lets lands for a term of life, or years, or at will.

lastage. In old English law. A custom claimed in fairs <a markets for carrying things.

sax. In old English law. Acquittance from lestage,

lastus, I. I In old English law. A last; a measure of commodities.

Hindra,hce; interruption.

To permit; to give leave to; to demise or lease; to deliver; to award, as a contract Let in: to admit a party as matter of favor.

A written communication from one person to another. In English law. Letter missive: a letter sent by the Lord Chancellor to a peer, defendant in the court of Chancery, requesting h

A writing giving authority or making an appointment, — in a form given, from an early period, to many written instruments, as letters patent, writs, appointments of attorney, of ex

I. fr. In old English law. A letter; a conveyance or grant, so called from its form; a written authority to an attorney; a writ

/. For the purpose of lightening the ship.

I. fr., Levantes et cubantes, I. I. Rising up and lying down, — a term applied to trespassing cattle which have been long enough on the land to have lain down and risen up to feed,

1. 1. In old English law. To raise, lift, set, put or cast up; to build or construct; to levy. Levare domum: to raise or erect a house. Levare fossatnm: to throw up a dyke or ditch

I. I. In English law. You cause to be levied; a writ of execution, commanding the sheriff to levy or make of the lands and chattels of the judgment debtor the sum recovered by the

Z. Light; slight; trifling. Levis culpa: slight fault or neglect Levis nota: a slight mark or brand. Levissima culpa: the slightest neglect

Degrees of kindred within which persons are by

To collect by execution; to take or seize in execution. In old English law. To raise, lift, cast, throw, set or put up; to erect or build; to make or construct In later law, to car

A taking or seizure of property under execution. lex, I. Law; a law; the law; in the language of the middle ages, a body or collection of law, not a code in the proper sense. Lex a

lay, lee, leie, ly, I. fr. Law. La ley voet plus tost saffer un iiiisclieife que un inconvenience: the law will sooner suffer a mischief than an inconvenience. Le ley de l)ieu et l

Literally, a little book, or writing; in ecclesiastical practice, the formal complaint, called simple when the cause is briefly set forth, and articulate when it is set forth in di

In admiralty practice, to proceed against, by filing a libel; to seize under process, at the beginning of a suit. Applied commonly to the seizure of vessels.

In admiralty practice, one who libels; one who proceeds by libel, or files a libel; the complaining party in a suit in equity, or a suit for divorca

I In the civil and old English law. A libel; a claim, in writing, of what is due to one; the plaintiff's claim in an action. Libellns famosus: a defamatory publication; a libel. In

I. A book; a collection of law; a distinct part or principal division of a work. Liber Assisarum: the Book of Assises, — a collection of cases that arose on assises and other trial

1. 1 In old English law. A free having a boat to fish in a certain water; a Libera chasea, or chacia: a free chasa Libera alms; frank-almoign. Libera falda: frank foldage. Libera l

A construction which enlarges scope of an agreement or instrument to give a meaning.

I. In old English law. To deliver, transfer, applied to writs, panels of jtirors, etc. Liberata eral ofiferentem: delivered or tendered money party offering. In the civil law. To s

1. 1. In old English law. An original writ the treasurer, etc., of the exchequer, for the pension, or other sum; a writ issued to a sheriff, any lands or goods taken on forfeiture

I In old English law. Livery; money livery or use of a thing. In old Scots law. Livery; a fee given to a servant In the civil law. Acquittance or discharge; payment.

I. Freely,— a formal word in old conveyances. to hold freely, — words which, in a gift of land effect of making him a freeman.

I. In Saxon law. Freemen; the possessors In the dmllaw. Children, — the term including their descendants. Liberi homines: freemen.

I. In old English law. Liberty; a liberty exemption; a franchise. Libertas inestimabilis an inestimable thing; a thing above prica sestimationem: freedom does not admit of omnibus

I. In the civil law. A freed-man; one who was manumitted from lawful servitude

I. In the civil law. A freed-man.

Freedom from retraint; freedom. Liberty of speech: the right freely to state facts and express opinions. Liberty of the press: the right to print and publish anything that the publ

Lat. Free. Liberum corpus: a free body; the body or life of a freeman; — aestimationem non recipit, or — nullam recipit aestimationem: the body of a freeman does not admit of valua

I. In old English law. A pound. Libra arsa: a pound burned, — that is, melted, or assayed by melting, to test its purity. Libra nnmerata: a pound counted, — that is, paid or reckon

I. In the Roman law. A writer or amanuensis; a copyist

1. 1. In old English law. A quantity of land yielding a pound rent per annum; a pound land.

/. In the Roman law. A weigher, or balance-holder; the person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancipation per oes et lihram.

Permission; authority; permission to do an act which without permission would be unlawful; the written evidence of such permission; authority to do a particular act or series of ac

The person to whom a license is given.

The person who gives a license.

I. License; liberty; permission. loqueiidi: leave to speak [i e. with the plaintiff]; an imparlance, or rather leave to imparl. Liceutia surgendi: license to arise; permission give

I. To be lawful; to be permitted by law. In the Roman law. Licere, liceri: to ofifer a price for a thing; to bid for it

I It is lawful; it is allowable; it is permitted, v. Non debet, etc.; Non omne, etc.

I Although. Licet dispositio de interesse futnro sit inutilis, tanien potest fieri declaratio prsecedens quae sortiatur eflfectnm, intervenieiite novo actu: although a grant of a f

I In the Roman law. To offer a price at a sale; to bid; to make several bids, one above another.

In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing; an act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a thing in common and un

I. ' In the Roman law. A bidder at a sale,

Lawful; permitted by law. Licita bene miscentur, formula nisi juris obstet: lawful acts [done by several authorities] are well mingled [i. e. become united or consolidated into one

To be applicable; to be proper to be used. v. Lying. Lie in: to be capable of; to be the subject or subject-matter of; to consist in. Lie to: to adjoin.

In feudal law. Bound; bound in fealty to a lord; bound to that kind of fealty which was without any saving of the rights of other lords; bound to serve the king as lord paramount F

In general, a right to possess and retain property, until some charge attaching to it is paid or discharged; in a wider sense, a 436 LIEN — LIMITATION. in the law maritime, a lien

Z. fr. A known place; a place well known and generallytaken notice of by those who dwell about it. Lieu tenant, or lieutenant: a person who holds the place of another; a deputy or

An annual income, the payments of which depend on the continuance of any given life or lives. Life assurance: a species of insurance, by which the insurer, in consideration of a su

I. In old English law. A bond or tie.

In old English law. Goods sunk in the sea, but tied to a cork or buoy, in order to be found again.

I. To tie, or bind; to enter into a league or treaty.

I. I. In old English law. A liege-woman; a female subject

ligeancy, Ligiantia, ligeantia, I. I. In old English law. The bond of fidelity between the subject and sovereign; the dominions or territory of the king.

A right to the access of the sun's rays to one's windows, free from any obstruction by the occupier of the adjoining land.