Law Dictionary

A local rate is a rate applying locally from one station to another on the same road.

The term “local receive facility” means the reception point in each local market which a satellite carrier designates for delivery of the signal of the station for purposes of retr

As used in this section, “local resident” means a resident of, or an individual who commutes daily to, a State described in subsection (a).

The term “local school official” means the highest administrative official serving a school district, or such individual's designee.

Local servicer.—The term “local servicer” means— (A) a State infrastructure bank established under this title; or (B) a State or local government or any agency of a State or local

Such a stafute as has for its object the interest of some particular locality, as the formation of a road, the alteration of the course of a river, the formation of a public market

See Local legislation .

Taxes (more often called "assessment") limited to certain civil divisions of the state or city,

For purposes of this subchapter, the term "local telephone service" means— (1) the access to a local telephone system, and the privilege of telephonic quality communicati

the term “local unit of general purpose government” means the government of a county, municipality, township, Indian tribe, Alaskan native village, or other unit of government (oth

The term “local unit of government” means— (A) any county, city, town, township, parish, village, or other general-purpose subdivision of a State; and (B) any local or regional spe

The venue of a local action (g. v.),

The term “local workforce development board” means a local workforce development board established under section 3122 of title 29. / the term “local workforce development board” me

To let for hire; to deliver or bail a thing for a certain reward or compensation. Bracton, fol. 62.

In old European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent. Spelman.

In French law. A lessee, tenant or renter.

A lessee.

In civil law. A depositary.

A depositary, which see.

To fix or definitely determine. LOCATIO (Lat.) In civil law. Letting for hire. Calv. Lex.; Vocat. The term is also used by text writers upon the law of bailment at common law. 1 Pa

A letting.

In civil law. A compound word used to denote the contract of bailment for hire, expressing the action of both parties, viz., a letting by the one, and a hiring by the other. 2 Kent

See HIRE. LOCATIO CUSTOOI/E. in Civil Law. The receiving of goods on deposit for reward. LOCATIO OPERIS FACIENDI (Lat.). In Civil Law. Hire of services to be performed. See Hi BiE.

In the civil law. The contract of hiring work, 7. ¢., labor and services. It is a contract by which one of the parties gives a certain work to be performed by the other, who binds

A letting to keep; a bailment or deposit of goods for hire. Story, Bailm. § 442,

A letting to keep; a bailment or deposit of goods for hire. Story, Bailm. § 442. LOCATIO MERCIUM VEHENDARUM (Lat.) In civil law. The carriage of goods for hire. In.respect to contr

A letting to keep; a bailment or deposit of goods for hire. Story, Bailm. § 442.

The term “location” means any geographic point or area declared or identified by the United States or specified by the International Atomic Energy Agency. / The terms "locatio

A location and discovery on land withdrawn quoad hoc from the public domain by a valid and subsisting mining claim is absolutely void for the purpose of founding a contradictory ri

sales by dealers through the medium of discounters.

The term “location information” means a consumer's place of abode and his telephone number at such place, or his place of employment.

the location of the land in question by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company was not complete, as regards this defendant, until said company caused a map thereof to be reco

The designation of any particular spot of general notoriety, or such a description of it in relation to some place of general notoriety as would clearly point it out to subsequent

A contract to repair a thing and to supply the materials. See 156 Pa. 343, 27 Atl. 38.

The bailment of goods to be worked upon, for reward.

A letting out of work to be done; a bailmenb ofa thing for the purpose of haying some work and labor or care and pains bestowed on it for a pecuniary recompense. 2 Kent, Comm. 586,

A bailment of goods to be carried.

A letting of a thing for hire or reward.

In the language of conveyancing, and particularly of titles under the public-land laws, calls in a grant, patent, deed, survey, &c., which make exact or specific reference to physi

the sense in which the enterer uses the reference to distance, is the only general rule that can govern a Court in construing an entry. That sense may be gathered from his language

The calls for Bryant's station and North Elkhorn, and the distance to the seventh big fork, are descriptive, and were designed to lead the inquirer to the locative or special call;

In civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, first, to deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it; second, to guarantee to the hire

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

An officer in the Isle of Man to execute the orders of the governor, something like our undersheriff. Wharton.

The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages. 202 111. 398.

A lock-up house: a place for the temporary confinement of law-breakers. See.Prison,

A place used temporarily as a prison.

Fr. In French marine law. A pilot.

A local pilot. See 33 N. Y. Super. Ct. 246.

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

In old English law. A place divided. A division made between two towns or counties to make out in which the land or place in question lies. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 15, § 1; Cowell.

The act of giving place.

An engine which moves cars by its own forward and backward motion. Stranahan v. Ry. Co., 84 N. Y. 314. An ordinance regulating the speed of cars includes a locomotive engine; East

the term “locomotive horn” refers to a train-borne audible warning device meeting standards specified by the Secretary of Transportation; and

See "In Loco Parentis." L0C0CE8SI0N (Lat.) In the civil law. The act of giving place. LOCUM TENENS (Lat.) Holding the place. Applied to a deputy. LOCUPLES (Lat.) In civil law. Able

In old records. A coffin; fi purse.

A lieutenant, which see.

(Civil Law) Responsible; able to pay a judgment.

Place.

See "Lex Loci."

The place of the contract governs the act. 2 Kent, Comm. 458. LOCUS CRIMINI8. The locality of a crime; the place where a crime was committed.

The place of the crime.

the locus delicti must be determined from the nature of the crime alleged and the location of the act or acts constituting it

The place in which; the premises described in the writ. See 15 N. H. 208.

In Old English Law. A division made between two towns or counties to make trial where the land or place in question lies. Fleta, 1. 4, c. xv. LOCUS P(ENITENTI>€ (Lat a place of rep

A place for repentance; an opportunity for changing one’s mind; a chance to withdraw from a contemplated bargain or contract before it sesults in a definite contractual liability.

A place or an opportunity to reflect or repent.

Room or place for re-pentence or reconsideration ; an opportunity to withdraw from a negotiation before finally concluding the contract or agreement. Also, in criminal law, an oppo

The .place for the payment of rent or money is to be strictly observed according to the condition of the demise or obligation.

In civil law. A public place. Dig. 43. 8. 1; Id. 43. 8. 2. 3.

In private international law. The rule that, when a legal transaction complies with the formalities required by the law of the country where it is done, it is also valid in the cou

The place where a thing is sifuated. In proceedings in rem, or the real actions of the civil law, the proper forum is the locus rei sitæ. The Jerusalem, 2 Gall. 191, 107, Fed. Cas.

The place where the thing is situated.

The place of the seal. The letters L. S. (an abbreviation of locus sigilli), surrounded by a scroll, is in some states held a good seal (5 Wis. 549), but in others a common-law sea

A place of standing; standing in court. A right of appearance in a court of justice, or before a legislative body, on a given question.

Engl. law, is an obsolete writ which lies when a woman gives land to a man in fee simple, or for a less estate, to the intent that he should marry her and he refuses upon request.

A seam or fissure in the earth’s crust filled with quartz or some other kind of rock in a place carrying gold, silver or other valuable mineral. See 63 Am. Dec. 108, note.

In old English law. A kind of pilot who navigated a vessel vdthin a harbor. Jacob.

Pilotage fees paid to a lodeman.

The pllot conducts the ship up the river or into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by the pilot, to the qu

The hire of a pilot for condueting a yessel from one place to another. Cowell.

One who inhabits a portion of a house of which another has the general possession and custody. It is by this retention of general possession and control by another that a "lodger"

The term “lodging facility” means a— (I) hotel, (II) motel, or (III) other establishment more than one-half of the dwelling units in which are used on a transient basis. / The term

A lodging house is distinguished from a hotel in that the keeper specially deals with his customers by contracting personally -mth the customer for the nature of the accommodation

Various acts for the well ordering of common lodging houses, beginning in 1851 with the stat. 14 & 15 Viet. c. 28. An act for the regulation and licensing of public lodging houses

Habitation in another's house; apartments in another's house, furnished or uhfurnished, occupited for habitation; the occupier being termed a "lodger."

A fine paid for alienation of land.

In old French and Canadian law. <A fine payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his

Same as Log-book.

A thing is local that is fixed to the freehold. Kitchin, 180.

An uniawful game mentioned in St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9.

A ship's journal. It contains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 408.

A lodge.

The science of reasoning or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes both the process itself of proceeding from

The term “logistic support, supplies, and services” means food, billeting, transportation (including airlift), petroleum, oils, lubricants, clothing, communications services, medic

In old records. A lodge, hovel or outhouse.

BY. In French marine law. A local pilot whose business was to assist the pilot of the vessel in guiding her course into a harbor or through a river or channel. Martin v. Farnsworth

In Roman law. A public clerk or accountant.

The corrupt practice of combining legislature minorities to secure the passage of bills otherwise impossible of passage. See 199 Pa. 161, 55 L. R. A. 882, 48 Atl. 976.

what is called 'log-rolling'—by which, in order to secure the requisite majority to carry necessary and proper items of appropriation, unnecessary or even indefensible items are so