Locus Partitus

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 repentance). The opportunity of withdrawing from a projected contract, before the parties are finally bound; or of abandoning the intention of committing a crime, before it has been completed. 2 Bro. C. C. 569. time. So of a bid at auction. auction is not inaptly called locus pcer UtenticB.'* 8 Term 148. The expression- has a broader use; it is said, arguendo, by Mr. Blihu Root in Harrlman v. Securities Co., 197 U. S. 281, 25 Sup. Ct 493, 49 L. Ed. 739, that this doctrine is available only to those who seasonably seek to make restitution and to withdraw from their illegal executory contract, and that laches is a fatal vice, citing many cases. See Atticmpt; Contbact; Refusal. LOCUS REi 8IT>C. See Lex Rei SiT.a:. LOCUS SiGILLI (Lat). The place of the seal. In many of the states, instead of sealing deeds, writs, and other papers or documents requiring it, a scroll is made, in which the letters L. S. are printed or written, which is an abbreviation of locus sigilli. This in some of the states, has all the efficacy of a seal, but in others it has no such effect. See Scroll; Seal. LOCUS STANDI (a place of standing). A right of appearance In a court of justice or before a legislative body, on a given question. A right to be heard. It is commonly used in England in reference to parliamentary practice and usually as to the passage of private bills. There is a series of reports called Locus Standi Reports in the Court of Referees. See May, Pari. Pr. 761; 9 Jurld. Rev. 47, 206; Referees. In private bill legislation in the British Parliament an outsider contestant on' the basis of interest in the bill must prove the ground of his appointment in order to obtain a locus standi. If his right to appear Is contested, the question of his locus standi, if In the commission, is determined by the Court of Referees, composed chieffy of members of the House of Commons, or if in the Lords, it is determined by the committee who is in charge of the bill.

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.