Law Dictionary

Span. Litigious; the subject of lltigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute in a pending suit White v. Gay, 1 Tex. 388.

That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense, litigious signifies a disposition to sue; a fondness for litigation.

In ecclesiastical law, a church is said to be litigious where two presentations are offered to the bishop upon the same avoidance. Jenk. Cent. 11. —Litigious right.. In the civil l

According to the Civil Code of Louisiana, article 2623, 'A right is said to be litigious whenever there exists a suit and contestation on the same.

In French law. Those which are or may be contested either in whole or in part, whether an action has been commenced, or when there is reason to apprehend one. Poth. Vente, note 584

The measure of damages.

In the Civil and Canon Law. Contestation of suit; the_ process of contesting a suit by the opposing statements of the respective parties; the process of coming to an issue; the att

Lat. In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who is sued for its possession or recovery by a third person, falls back upon his vendor's covenant of warranty

In civil law. Ownership, control, or direction of a suit. A fiction of law by which the employment of an attorney or proctor (procurator) in a suit was authorized or Justified, he

The control of an action or litigation.

sive In rem, sive in personam sit. The word Us, i. e., a lawsuit, signifies every action, whether in rem or in personam. Co. Litt. 292.

The name “lis” signifies an action, whether in rem or in personam.

Co. Litt. 292. A lawsuit signifies every action, whether it be in rem or in personam.

An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit is going on.

In Spanish law. The condition of a suit pending in a court of justice. In order to render this condition valid, it is necessary that the judge be competent to take cognizance of th

(Spanish) The pendency of an action.

Lat. The measure of damages.

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

The sea-shore. "It is certain that that which the sea overflows, either at high spring tides or at extraordinary tides, comes not, as to this purpose, under the denomination or 'It

The shore is where the greatest wave has come up to from the sea.

A French measure of capacity. It is of the size of a decimetre, or one-tenth part of a cubic metre. It is equal to 61.028 cubic inches. See "Measure." LITTORAL (litus). Belonging t

The term “little cigar” means any roll of tobacco wrapped in leaf tobacco or any substance containing tobacco (other than any roll of tobacco which is a cigarette within the meanin

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

Bordering on the shore; pertaining to the shore.

One whose lands border upon tide waters, as distinguished from lands bounding on a watercourse. See "Riparian Proprietors." There appears to be no word or phrase of sufficiently br

By the common law of England, the right of littoral proprietors, bounding on public navigable waters, extended to high-water mark only. But by an ancient ordinance, usually denomin

In civil law. An obliteration or blot in a will or other instrument. Dig. 28. 4. 1. 1. LITUS EST QUOUSQUE MAXIMUS fluctus a mari pervenit. The shore is where LITUS MARIS (Lat.) In

In Old European Law. A person who surrendered himself Into another’s power; a kind of servant. Top. c./ 7. Qua fluctus adludit. Qulnct. lib. 5, c. ult. Quousffue maximus fluctus a

The shore is where the highest wave from the sea has reached. Dig. 50, 16, 96. Ang. Tide-Waters, 67.

The shore of the sea.

“Litvinov Assignment” means (A) the communication dated November 16, 1933, from Maxim Litvinov to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, wherein the Soviet Government assigned to the Gov

Where, in the gift of a hou.se, there was a condition that the donee should “live and reside” therein, it was held that the word “live” added nothing to Its point. T. & R. 530.

Means of subsistence or maintaining life; means of living. 3 Atk. 399; Torbert v. Twining, 1 Yeates (Pa.) 432. See 16 East 147; 5 L. J. Ex. 263.

Maintenance; support.

The term “live poultry dealer” means any person engaged in the business of obtaining live poultry by purchase or under a poultry growing arrangement for the purpose of either slaug

In Englishlaw. This was the third officer of the Duchy court. Bac. Abr. “Attorney.”

In English law. The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capita or by knight's service. The name of a writ which lay for the heir of age to obta

In Feudal Law. The delivery of the property of a ward in chivalry out of the guardian’s hands, upon

The transfer of possession in sight of, but not by actual physical entry upon, the land.

A liveryman who hires out a horse and driver is a private, and not a common, carrier. He is required only to “exercise the usual care, skill and diligence ordinarily exercised by t

A member of some company in the city of London; also called a “freeman.”

In Old English Law. An office for the delivery of lands.

In estates. A delivery of possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments unto one entitled to the same. This was a ceremony used in the common law for the conveyance of real est

under the civil law, is necessary to transfer titles. Livery of seizin is the controlling fact.

A place where horses and vehicles are kept to be let to the public. See 30 La. Ann. 1095. Though some other related business may be carried on, as the boarding of horses for hire,

One whose business it la to keep horses for hire or to let, or to keep, feed, or board horses for others. Kittanning Borough v. Montgomery, 5 Pa. Super. Ct. 198.

The term "livestock" means cattle, elk, reindeer, bison, horses, deer, sheep, goats, swine, poultry (including egg-producing poultry), llamas, alpacas, live fish, crawfis

In this subsection, the term “livestock commodity” includes cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry, including pasture, rangeland, and forage as a source of feed for that livestoc

See Insurance.

The term “livestock producer” means— (A) a person that is actively engaged in farming and that receives a substantial amount of total income from the production of grain or livesto

The term “livestock products” means all products and byproducts (other than meats and meat food products) of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry derived in whole or in part

A child en ventre sa mere held to be living. See 32 Mass. 255, 26 Am. Dec. 598. See En ventre sa mere.

As used in this section, the term “living marine resources” includes fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds and other waterfowl.

“living stage” includes the egg, pupal, and larval stages as well as any other living stage; and / “Living stage” includes the egg, pupal, and larval stages as well as any other li

In a bequest to a servant the phrase “living with me” does not mean living in the testator’s house but living in his service. 22 L. J. Ch. 155.

In Saxon law. Bewitchig any person; also a barbarous sacrifice,

(Law Lat.) In old European law. To beat; to bruise by beating. Marculf. lib. 1, form. 29.

A book; a pound weight.

In common law. A coin used in France before the revolution. It is to be computed, in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act March 2, 1798,, § 61 (1 S

Law judge.

The reduplicated form of the abbreviation "L." for "law," used as a plural. It ls generally used in citing old collections of statute law; as "LL. Hen. I."

(also L. Lat.) and L. F. (also In Fr.) are used as abbreviations of the terms "Law Latin" and "Law French."

Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three academic degrees in law,—bachelor, master, and doctor of laws.

A league or association.

A mutual fire and marine insurance association, the members underwriting each other's policies.

An association in the city of London, the members of which underwrite each other's policies. 2 Steph. Com., 11th ed. 138, n. The name is derived from Lloyd's coffee house, the grea

A sealed promise to pay acknowledging value received, issued by a corporation.

The name of a class of evidences of debt, used in England; being acknowledgments, by a borrowing company made under its seal, of a debt incurred and actually due by the company to

A system of Insurance similar to the English Lloyds, which is carried on in the United States by unincorporated associations of individuals. It originated in connection with marine

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

Charged with crime by indictment.

One against whom an indictment has been found.

See Lucrative.

“LNG terminal” includes all natural gas facilities located onshore or in State waters that are used to receive, unload, load, store, transport, gasify, liquefy, or process natural

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

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

The term “load charge” means any sales or similar charge incurred by a person in acquiring stock of a regulated investment company. Such term does not include any charge incurred b

The depth to which a ship will sink in salt water when leaded. Every British ship must be marked on each side ships, and pleasure yachts, also ships employed exclusively In trading

For purposes of clause (i), the term “load loss transaction” means any wholesale or retail sale of electric energy (other than to members) to the extent that the aggregate sales du

A pilot.

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may

The term “load management technique” means any technique (other than a time-of-day or seasonal rate) to reduce the maximum kilowatt demand on the electric utility, including ripple

The term “load-serving entity” means a distribution utility or an electric utility that has a service obligation. / The term “load-serving entity” has the meaning given the term in

For purposes of this subsection, the term “loan” includes obligations and extensions or advances of credit. / Subject to subparagraph (B), the term “loan” means a loan made to a fa

GRATUITOUS, (or COMMO-

See Cleabinu House.

the term “loan commitment” means a prospective mortgagee's written confirmation of its approval, including any applicable closing conditions, of the application of a prospective mo

The term “loan commodity” means each contract commodity, extra long staple cotton, and oilseed. / The term “loan commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland c

In this paragraph, the term “loan cost” has the meaning given the term “cost of a loan guarantee” under section 661a(5)(C) of title 2 .

when the nominal employer furnishes a third party 'with men to do the work, and places them under his exclusive control in the performance of it, those men become pro hac vice the

A contract By which the owner of a personal chattel, called the "lender," delivers it to the bailee, called the "borrower," to be returned in kind. For example, if a person borrows

A loan of goods to be returned in kind at a future time, without reward.

A bailment of an article to be used by the borrower without paying for the use. 2 Kent, Comm. (4th Ed.) 573. Loan for use (called commodatum in the civil law) differs from a loan f

The term “loan guarantee” means any guarantee, insurance, or other pledge with respect to the payment of all or a part of the principal or interest on any debt obligation of a non-

The term “loan guarantee commitment” means a binding agreement by a Federal agency to make a loan guarantee when specified conditions are fulfilled by the borrower, the lender, or

The term “loan originator”— (i) means an individual who— (I) takes a residential mortgage loan application; and (II) offers or negotiates terms of a residential mortgage loan for c

The term “loan processor or underwriter” means an individual who performs clerical or support duties at the direction of and subject to the supervision and instruction of— (i) a St