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LIBERTY AND PROPERTY. This phrase embraces every personal, political and civil right or liberty which any person within the state may possess, including the right to labor, to make and ^terminate contracts and to acquire property, right of self-defense, freedom of speech, religious and political freedom, exemption from arbitrary arrests, the right to buy and sell as others may. By no authority can any person '>e deprived of any of these rights or restricted in their exercise except by due process of law, by a statute general in its operation and aflfecting in the same way all persons similarly situated. 249 111. 514.

That state of animals and plants or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. Webster. The sum of the forces by which dcath is resisted. Bichat. -Life-annuity. An engagement to pay an income yearly during the life of some person; also the sum thus promised.

— Life-estate. An estate whose duration is limited to the life of the party holding it, or of some other person ; a freehold estate, not of inhe not amounting to ownership, and limited by a term of life, either that of the person in whom the right is vested or that of another.

— Life-land, or Life-hold. Land held on a lease for lives.

— Life of a writ. The period during which a writ (execution, etc.) remains effective and can lawfully be served or levied, terminating with the day on which, by law or by its own terms, it is to be returned into court.

— Life peerage. Letters patent, conferring the dignity of baron for life only, do not enable the grantee to sit and vote in the house of lords, not even with the usual writ of summons to the house. Wharton.

— Life policy. A policy of life insurance; a policy of insurance upon the life of an individual.

— Life-rent. In Scotch law. An estate for life; a right to the use and enjoyment of an estate or thing for one's life, but without destruction of its substance. They are either legal, such as terce and curtesy, (g. v.,) or conventional, i. e., created by act of the parties. Conventional life-rents are either simple, where the owner of an estate grants a life-interest to another, or by reservation, where the owner, in conveying away the fee, reserves a life-estate to himself.

— Life-renter. In Scotch law. A tenant for life without waste. Bell.

— Life tenant. One who holds an estate in lands for the period of his own life or that of another certain person.

— Natural life. The period of a person's existence considered as continuing until terminated by physical dissolution or death occurring in the course of nature; used in contradistinction to that juristic and artificial conception of life as an aggregate of legal rights or the possession of a legal personality, which could be terminated by "civil death," that is, that extinction of personality which resulted from entering a monastery or being attainted of treason or felony. See People v. Wright, 89 Mich. 70, 50 N. W. 792.

That state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are periormed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. Webster. The sum of the forces by which death is resisted. Bichat.:

For some ptirposes, life is recognized as commencing from conception; particularly for those in which beneficial interests of the child are involved, such as its capacity to inherit. For others, it dates from quickening; thus, except under recent statutes, quickening was necessary to constitute producing abortion an offence. For a third class of purposes, the child must be born able to exist independent of the mother, before its life is deemed to have commenced. Life annuity. An engagement to pay an income yearly during the life of some person; also, the sum thus promised; an annuity limited for a life. See Annuity. Life assurance; life Insurance. That kmd of insurance which involves an engagement to pay a sum upon the death of the insured, or of a third person in whose life the insured has an interest, either whenever it occurs, or in case it occurs within a prescribed term. See Insurance. Life-estate. A right or ownership in some subject of property, usually, but not necessarily, realty, limited by a life or lives. See Estate for Life. Life interest. Some claim or right of enjoyment, usually not amounting to ownership, and limited by a term of life, either that of the person in whom the right is vested, or that of another. Life-land; life-hold. Land held on a lease for lives. Wharton. Life-peerage. Letters-patent sometimes confer the dignity of baron for life Life policy. A short expression for a policy of insurance upon life; the usual written contract employed in engagements to pay a sum in case of death of a person designated. Life-rent. 1. In English law, a rent which a man receives for term of life, or for sustentation of life. Cowd, 2. In Scotch law, a right which entitles a person to use and enjoy property during life, without destroying or wasting its substance. The proprietor is called the.;?ar; the subject of the property, which is either a sum of money or heritage, is called the fee; and the person in possession the liferenter. Bell.