Lesion

In civil law. A term used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of situation, by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract. The remedy given for this injury is founded on its being the effect of implied error or imposition; for in every commutative contract equivalents are supposed to be given and received. Code La. art. 1854. Persons of full age, however, are not allowed, in point of law, to object to their agreements as being injurious, unless the injury be excessive. Poth. Obi. p. 1, c. 1, sec. 1, art. 3, § 4. But minors are admitted to restitution, not only against any excessive inequality, but against any inequality whatever. Id. i 5; Code La. art. 1858. See "Fraud"; "Guardian"; "Sale." LESPEGEND (Saxon). A lessor thane or baron. Const. Canuti Regis de Foresta, art. 2. Spelman prefers to write it "lesthegen."

In Civil Law. A term used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of situation, by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract. The remedy given for this injury is founded on its being the effect of implied error or imposition; for in every commutative contract equivalents are supposed to be given and received. Persons of full age, however, are not allowed in point of law to object to their agreements as being injurious, unless the Injury be excessive; Pothler, Obi. p. 1, c. 1, s. 1, art. 3, § 4. But minors are admitted to restitution, not only against any excessive inequality, but against any inequality whatever; Pothler, Obi, p, 1, c, 1, s. 1, art. 3, § 5; La. Code, art. 1858, See Fraud; Guardian; Sale.

Fr. Damage; injury; detriment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law.

In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not recoive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract. Civil Code La. art. 1860. Inequality in contracts. Poth. Obi., no. 33.

In medical jurisprudence. Any change in the structure of an organ due to injury or disease, whether apparent or diagnosed as the cause of a functional irregularity or disturbance,'

/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 contracts.

Fr. Damage; injury; detriment. Kelham. <A term of the Scotch law.

In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive atull equivalent for what he gives ina commutative contract, Civil Code La. art. 1860. Inequality in contracts. Poth. ObL, no. 33.

In case of a, sale, it is competent for the purchaser to rescind the contract on account of lesion, i, e. the worsened value of thing sold, when it exceeds respect, but he must exercise it within two years. In the contract 'of exchange there is no right of rescission pour cause de lesion. {Code Civil, 1706.) Brown. LESSEE; LESSOR. The persons to and by whom respectively a lea3e (5. v.) is made. Lessee, in a statute extending liability of railroad corporations for live-stock killed, to lessees of roads, should include a corporation operating a road under an assignment of a lease. The term should receive such construction as will give effect to the intention of the legislature; such as will meet any case of parties using a road as substitutes for the owners, exercising the rights of owners under some right or permission given, for a consideration to be paid to the owners. Burchfleld v. Northern Central R. R., 57 Barb. 589. In a covenant of lease made by " A, as agent for B," there being nothing in the body of the lease inconsistent, B is properly described as lessor. Devojl v. Halstead, 16 Ind. 287. Liessor of the plaintiff. The person ■who really prosecuted the old action of ejectment was so styled, because the action was founded on a fiction that he had granted a lease to the nominal plaintiff, John Doe, whose possession he was called upon to make good. See Ejectment.