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The law of the place of situation of the thing.

The law of the place where the thing is situated. See 136 Pa. St. 354, 20 Am. St. Rep. 925, 11 L. R. A. 85, 20 Atl. 521.

PUGNANtla, incongrua. The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incongruous things. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 133, 140, 176.

Jenk. Cent. 133. The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incongruous things.

The law rejects those matters which are superfluous, repugnant or incongruous.

The law disapproves of delay.

Law regards equity. See 14 Q. B. 504, 511, 512.

Co. Litt. 24b. The law pays regard to equity.

The Rhodian law, particularly the fragment of it on the subject of jettison {de jactu), preserved in the Pandects. Dig. 14. 2. 1; 3 Kent, Comm. 232, 233.

The Roman law fixing the right of a shipper whose goods were jettisoned to contribution from owners of the rest of the cargo.

See Civil Law; Roman Law.

Purgation by oath. Leg. H. 1. who settled in Gaul in the fifth centiiry. It is the oldest of the barbarian codes,! being said to have been framed about A. D. 422. The most celebrat

Purgation by oath.

Salic law, which see.

(B. C. 34.) The law abolishing the usucapio servitutis. Sohm, Rom. L. 265. LEX SCRiPTA. Written or statute law. See Jus EX Non Scripta.

The written law.

ID CUSTODI. ri oportet quod moribus et consuetudlne Inductum est; et, si qua in re lioc defecerit, tunc id quod proximum et consequens el est; et, si id non appareat, tunc Jus quo

7 Coke, 19. If the written law be silent, that which is drawn from manners and custom ought to be observed; and, if that is in any maimer defective, then that which is next and ana

Jenk. Cant. 15. The law assists the ignorant.

The law aids minors. Jenk. Cent. p. 51, case 97.

The law will always give a remedy. 3 Bouv. Inst, note 2411; Bac. Abr. "Actions in General" (B); Branch, Princ; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 181; 12 Adol. & E. 266; 7 Q. B. 451.

The law always gives a remedy. 5 Rawle (Pa.), 89.

The law always intends that which is agreeable to reason.

(B, 0. 123.) The law forbidding senators from being judges and allowing the office to the knights. Sand. Just. Introd. § 12.

the lex situs, the law of the place where the property is kept and used

The law regards the order of nature. Co. Litt. 197; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 231.

The laws succor the ignorant. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 15.

The law assists minors. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 67. LEX TALIONIS (Lat.) The law of retaliation, an example of which is given in the law of Moses, — an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,

The law of retaliation.

The law of the land. The common law, or the due course of the common law ; the general law of the land. Bract, fol. 17b. Equivalent to "due process of law." In the strictest sense,

The law of the land.

The Ælian Sentian law, respecting wills, proposed by the consuls Ælius and Sentius, and passed A. U. C. 756, restraining a master from manumitting his slaves in certain cases. Calv

The law speaks to all with one mouth. 2 Inst. 184.

The unwritten or common law, which includes general and particular customs, and particular local Jaws.

NON DORMIENTIbus subvenit. Law assists the wakeful, not the sleeping. 1 Story, Cent. (4th Ed.) 502.

The law favors the diligent.

The law aids the vigilant, not those who sleep.

(B. C. 169.) A ple Uadtum forbidding a legatee to receive more than each heir had. Inst. 2. 22. LEY (Old French; a corruption of loi). Law. For example, Termea de la Ley. Terms of

The Welsh law; the law of Wales. Blount.

The law of the Visigoths, or Western Goths, who settled in Spain; first reduced to writing A. D. 466. They were made by Euric, amended by Chindaswindus and Recaswindus. A revision

The law of the Visigoths, or Western Goths who settled in Spain; first reduced to writing A. D. 466. A revision of these laws was made by Egigas. Spelman. In old English law. A bod

Law; an oath.

In old English law. The civil or Roman law. Y. B. H. 8 Edw. III. 42. Otherwise termed ley escripte, the written law. Y. B. 10 Edw. III. 24.

In Spanish law. Laws of the style; a book of explanations of the Fuero Real, to the number of two hundred and fifty-two, formed under the authority of Alonzo X. and his son Sancho,

In Spanish law. A collection of laws, usually published as an appendix to the Fuero Real; treating of the mode of conducting suits, prosecuting them to judgment, and entering appea

Wager of law; an offer to make an oath denying the cause of action of the plaintiflF, confirmed by compurgators (q. v.), which oath used to be allowed in certain cases. When it was

An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion. See "I«se Majesty." Ul. LO. An abbreviation of licentia lo-

In old Sectch criminal law. Anoffense consisting in slanderous and untrue speeches, to the disdain,

Lawful birth; the condition of being burn in wedlock; the opposite of illegitimacy or bastardy.

An aneient writ that lay to remove a leper or lazar, who thrust himself into the company of his neighbors in any parish, either in the church or at

Lat. Leze-majesty, or injured majesty; high treason. It isa phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any olfense against the king’s person or dignity. LA#STO ULTRA DIMI

A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (except it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to the lord. Blount.

the term “liabilities” means— (A) with respect to a United States financial company— (i) the total risk-weighted assets of the financial company, as determined under the risk-based

“liability”— (A) means legal liability for damages (including costs of defense, legal costs and fees, and other claims expenses) because of injuries to other persons, damage to the

The term “Liability Claim” means, as it relates to a Liability— (A) right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent,

It is essentially a species of liability without fault, analogous to other well known instances in our law. Derived from and shaped to meet the hazards which performing the service

The term “liability insurance” means insurance for legal liabilities incurred by the insured resulting from— (i) loss of or damage to property of others; (ii) ensuing loss of incom

the liability of a surety is not to be extended, by implication, beyond the terms of his contract; that his undertaking is to receive a strict interpretation; and not to extend bey

The cases cited to show that the judgment must be for the whole sum, if the verdict find any assets, have been overruled... the law is now well understood to be, that the executor

The term “liability or legal expense” means— (i) any legal or other professional expense incurred in connection with any claim, proceeding, or action; (ii) the amount of, and any c

Carriers are liable to employees in damages whenever the failure to obey these Safety Appliance Laws is the proximate cause of injury to them when engaged in the discharge of duty.

It is a general principle of our law that there is no individual liability for an act which ordinary human care and foresight could not guard against. It is also a general principl

1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensation or restitution. 2. Exposed or subject to a given contingen

An old French coin, of silver or copper, formerly current to a limited extent in England, and there computed as equivalent to a farthing.

On that subject, we are of opinion, that in no case can it be necessary to state in a libel, any fact which constitutes the defence of the Claimant, or a ground of exception of the

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.

The complainant or party who files a libel in an ecolesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff In ictions at law.

There would be much force in this argument, if the term 'information' were exclusively applicable to a proceeding at common law. But the court is of opinion that it has no such exc

A party against whom a libel has bcen filed in an ecclesiastical court or in admiralty.

It is a process of the nature of a libel in rem; and does not, in any degree, touch the person of the offender.

The party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff in actions in the common-law courts.

A party against whom a libel has been filed in proceedings in an ecclesiastical court or in admiralty, corresponding to the defendant in a common-law suit. LIBELLUS (Lat.) — 1 — In

In the civil law. The statement of a plaintiff's claim in a petition presented to the magistrate, who directed an officer to deliver it to the defendant.

A libel.

In the civil law. The statement of a plaintiff's claim in a petition presented to the magistrate, who directed an olficer to deliver it to the defendant. LIBELLUS FAMOSUS (Lat.) A

A defamatory libel.

In Scotch law. The instrument which contains the charge against a person accused of a crime. Libels are of two kinds, namely, indictments and criminal letters. Every libd assumes t

A defamatory publication is libelous per se when the words are of such a character that an action may be brought upon them without the necessity of showing any special damage, the

Constituting a libel.

A book.

adj. Free; exempt from the power or authority of another; exempt from a charge or burden. Liber homo. A free man. 1. In the Roman law, every man not a 2. In early English law, a ma

A delivery of so much com or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn and received some portion of it as a reward or gratuity. Cowell. LIBERAL (

In old records, A. free boat; the right of having a boat to fish in a certain water; a species of free fishery.

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

Free chase, the exclusive right to hunt.

A judicial writ granted to a person for a frea chase belonging to his manor after proof made by inquiry of a jury that the same of right belongs to him, Wharton.

See Execution, 3, Writs of.

Free alms. See Frankalmoigne .

Frank-fold, which see.

Interpretation according to the spirit rather than the letter. See 43 U. S. 426, 11 L. Ed. 326.

where a treaty fairly admits of two constructions, one restricting the rights that may be claimed under it and the other enlarging them, the more liberal construction is to be pref

Frank law, which see.

Even where a provision of a treaty fairly admits of two constructions, one restricting, the other enlarging rights which may be claimed under it, the more liberal interpretation is

To lose one's free law (called the villainous judgment) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those land

Free fishery, which see.

In the Civil Law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calv. Lex. In Old English Law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels of jurors,

The book of the Assizes. The fourth volume of decisions reported in the reign of Edward III.

The restoration of money does not free the offeror.

Deliver ye. An old writ for the payment of a pension; a writ for lands seized by the sheriff on a recognizance; a writ to release one imprisoned.

At the very least, the proviso's language must mean that the kidnapped person shall not be suffering from injuries when liberated.