A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I In old English law. Bound; bound to fidelity, fealty or obedience; liege; subject; lawful; perfect. Ligia potestas: lawful power or capacity; absolute power of disposal. Ligia

I. I. In old English law. A right to cut fuel in woods.

I. In old English law. Dead wood, or wood cut, as distinguished from arbot. In the civil law. Wood; fire-wood; any thing prepared for burning.

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

To define, indicate or mark out the extent or duration of.

/. In old English law. To limit; to fix a boundary or period,

I. In old English law. Limitation; a limitation.

Eestriction; circumscription; boundary; the setting of of time, beyond which, except in specific cases, it will not be allowed. Limitation of assise: in old practice, a time prescr

Restricted in extent, duration, scope or character; confined. Limited administi'ation: an administration of a temporary character, granted for a particular period, or for a special

Limit of ownership or possession; boundary; the connection between persons descended from a common ancestor; a connected series as of the means for conveyance or transmission.

I In civil and old English law. A line; a series of persons descending from a common stock. Linea recta: the right line; the direct line; a line of persons in which the one is desc

In a direct line; from parent to child. Lineal consanguinity: that kind of consanguinity which subsists between persons, of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other. L

I. A tongue; speech. Applied, in old English law, to the verdict of a jury.

I. In the (Hvil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory.

/. It is clear or apparent; it appears.

To clear away; to lessen; to pay; to ascertain the amount to be paid. Liquidated: cleared away; settled; agreed upon or operation of law. Liquidated damages: a fixed sum agreed upo

The act of admitting claims of indebtedness; the winding up of an insolvent firm or company.

I. Clearly; manifestly. Liquido jurare: to swear from a full knowledge of the subject; to swear without hesitation, or in clear and absolute terms.

In general, includes all spirituous, vinous, malt and fermented liquor, v. Intoxicating liquor; Spirituous liquor; Vinous liquor. Liquor sliop: a house in which spirituous liquors

I. Jr. To deliver. Livere: delivered. Lirromus: we delivered.

I. A controversy or dispute; a suit at law. Lis alibi pendens: an action pending elsewhere; a plea of such an action. Lis mota: a controversy originated; a term frequently used in

A catalogue or roll of causes, names, eta; a schedule of the polls and taxable property upon which taxes are assessed; the civil officers of a government, and the appropriations fo

A person whose business it is to prepare a list of polls and taxable property for the purpose of taxation.

I. In the Roman law. To make a suit his own, — applied to a Judex, who from partiality or enmity evidently favored either of the parties.

v. Pendente lite.

pi. literae, I. In old English law. A letter; the letter, as distinguished from the meaning of a writing; a term applied in the plural to various instruments in writing, public and

I. In old English law. Education; knowledge of letters. V. Minus.

A person engaged in a law-suit; a party to a suit.

I To litigate; to carry on a suit either as plaintiff or as defendant

To dispute or contend in form of law; to carry on a suit.

Over-ready to engage in litigation. In English ecclesiastical law. The subject of contending claims. In the civil law. Litigious riglit: a right which cannot be exercised without u

L In the civil and old English law. Litigation; the contest between the parties to a suit; a suit or controversy.

A judge of the reign of Edward IV., who wrote a treatise on tenures, on which Coke wrote a commentary.

Belonging to the shore; on the sea-shore. Littoral proprietor: a proprietor of land on the shore of the sea.

I. In the civil law. An obliteration or blot in a written instrument

In English law. Delivery; a writ which lay for an heir in Icnight-service to obtain possession of lands; the privilege of a particular company. Livery ol seisin: delivery of seisin

A place where horses and vehicles are kept for hire, and horses are fed, groomed, etc., for compensation. Lirery-stablft keeper: a person whose business is the keeping of such a st

An association in London whose members underwrite each other's policies, — so called from Lloyd's coflfee-house, formerly a resort for seafaring men. Lloyd's bonds: admissions of i

An interval of reason enjoyed by an insane person, or lunatic.

I. Gain; profit; benefit; advantage. In the civil law. Lncri causa: for the sake of gain. Lucri faciendi gratia: for the sake of making gain. In Scots law. Lucrum cessans: a ceasin

Insanity or madness, — properly, is broken by intervals of

An insane person; a person son; properly, one who has lucid

A bailment of goods to be used by the bailee temporarily, without reward.

Seeking by bribery or other dishonest means to influence the vote of a member of legislature. ^

Relating to place; expressive of place; belonging or confined to a particular placa Local action: an action which must be brought in a particular place or county. Local allegiance:

I In the civil and old English law. To let for hire, as a house, land or other thing; to deliver or bail for a certain reward or compensation.

In American law. To place; to fix, ascertain or designate the place of a thing; to describe the place or situation of a tract of land; to mark out the boundaries, or identify the s

I. In the civil law. A letting for hire; a bailment or delivery of a thing for a certain compensation. Locatio-condnctio, or locatio et condnctlo: a letting and hiring, — a compoun

In American law. The designation of the boundaries of a particular piece of land, either upon record, or on the land.

In American law. Calls for the purpose of location; calls which designate the particular boundaries of lands.

In American law. One who locates land, or intends or is entitled to locate.

I. In the civil law. A letter; one who lets; the correlative of conductor.

I In the civil law. Able to respond in an action; good for the amount which may be recovered.

1. 1 In old English law. A place holder; one who holds the place of another; a deputy or representative; — decani et vices ejus gerens: holding the place of the dean, and performin

I A place; the place. Locus contractus: the place of a contract; the place where a contract is made; — regit actum: the place of the contract governs the act; the law of the place

One who occupies hired apartments in the house of another; a tenant of part of the house of another.

Habitation in the house of another; apartments in the house of another, furnished or unfurnished, occupied for habitation.

fr. In old French and Canadian law. A fine payable by a roturier, on change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation fine.

A portion of a trunk of a tree cut of a length convenient for procuring its enactment by combination of the minorities supporting the several measures. logographus, gr.-l In the Ro

I. Long possession; — est pacis jns: long possession is the law of peace; — jus parit: long possession begets right; — parit jus possidendi, et to Uit actionem vero domino: long po

A person on board a vessel, in a favorable position to see, and exclusively engaged in watching, the movements of other vessels, and near enough to the helmsman to communicate with

I. I. In old English law. A plaint, plea or suit; a declaration; a statement, saying or affirmation; an imparlance.

sentiendum ut docti, I. We must speak as the common people, we must think as the learned.

In English law. A title of honor belonging properly to the degree of baron, but applied also to the whole peerage; a title of office. Lord advocate: the chief crown lawyer and publ

The statute 33 & 34 Vict, c 85, conferring general powers on trustees and.mortgagees. Lord Denman's Act: the statute 6 & 7 Vict, c. 85, removing the disability of witnesses not par

In old English law. A seigniory; the domain or estate of a lord; a title of honor applied to a nobleman, not a duke; to judges, and some other persons in authority.

A clause in marine policies of insurance, meaning that the contract is intended to embrace a loss which may have already happened.

A resort to chance for the determination of a question or for arriving at a result In old English law. A contribution; a portion or share of a tribute, or any payment which one is

A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot, by which a certain pecuniary consideration is paid for a chance in the distribution.

The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Low-water mark: the line of the sea-shore to which the watera recede, at ordinary low-tide. Lower,, I. fr. A fee or reward; a bribe.

Z./r. In old English law. Lawful. Loyalment: lawfully.

1. 1. In old English law. A

I. In Scots law. A gainer.

v. Baggage.

Timber sawed or split for use in building; material for building.

I. In the civil law. Light; the light of the sun or sky; the

Waifs, estrays, seizure by persons entitled without grant: passing by deed or charter, Lying in livery: fees and feeholds ing and watching in ambush with M. The letter formerly bra

macegrefs, I. fr. In old ingly bought and sold stolen flesh,

mechamiuin, I. I. In old manzie.

In patent law, any mechanical mechanical powers and devices, to duce a certain effect or result

Somewhat more than necessary to the working of a machine,

I More. Magis dignum trahit worthy draws to itself the less worthy.

I. A master or ruler; a chief vated above others by office, position, thority and example we follow; one eminence in a science or in literature of any matter devolves. Magister thi

2. Z. In old English adapted to special cases, and so masters or principal clerks of the

I. In the civil law. had the power of hearing and properly was to inquire into magistrate.

A person clothed with that kind of insanity which reason. « who has lost the use of his reaintervals. wrecks, and the like, subject to the aid of a court Lyingf in as incorporeal h

In English law. viction takes place. Maiden some manors on their marriage, lord for his omitting the custom license to marry a daughter.

mayliem, maliem, maim, lently depriving another of the an injury to another such as Mahemium est Iiomicidium cide. Maiiiemium est inter minora maximum: maihem is and the greatest a

A •wallet, sack or bag used in the carriage of letters, papers, etc., from one post-office to another; the carriage and delivery of letters, etc., by public authority.

maile, maille, I. fr. In old English law. A tribute; a rent; a small piece of money. In Soots law. Rent or tribute. Mailer, mailpayer: a tenant who pays a rent Maills and dnties: t

manour, meinonr, meynonr, meynovere, I fr. Hi old English law. A thing stolen; especially such a thing found in the thief's possession, v. Handhabend.

mayno Ter, I. fr. The labor of the hand; manual labor.

In old English law. That may be let to bail; capable of being bailed.

Maynpernour, meinpernonr, I. fr. In old English law. A surety for the appearance of a person delivered to him out of prison, — differing from bail in being bound to produce the pri

meynprise, maynpryse, mainpris, meynpris, I. fr. and eng. In old English law. The release of a person under arrest into the custody of his friends upon their giving security for hi

In old English law. Perjured or forsworn, with one's hand upon the book.

To sustain or keep up; to assist or promote.

One that maintains or seconds a cause depending in suit between others; a person guilty of maintenance.

I. fr. and eng. Preservation; continuance, support An officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money, or otherwis

I. fr. In old English law. Mayor; a mayor. An officer classed with justices and sheriffs.