Language — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The medium for the communication of perceptions and ideas. Spoken language is that wherein articulate sounds are used. Written language is that wherein written characters are used, and especially the system of characters called "letters and fig- LAN QUID US (Lat.)

In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant, whom he has taken by virtue of process, is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or health.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter or grammatical import, of a document or instrument, as distinguished from its spirit; as "the language of the statute." See Behling v. State, 110 Ga. 754, 36 S. E. 85 ; Stevenson v. State, 90 Ga. 456, 16 S. E. 95; Cavan v. Brooklyn (City Ct. Brook.) 5 N. Y. Supp. 759.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Any meansof conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written cliaracters, ‘The letter, or grammatical import, of a document or instrument, as distinguished from its spirit; as “the language of the statute.”