Law Dictionary

I Suits for breach in the ecclesiastical courts. They were of Clarendon.

In old English law. A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing given, or delivered. Spelman.

in Old English Law. One of a class between the servile and free. 1 Palg. Rise & Prog. 334. - Of this class it is said: “Thus degrees of servility are possible. A class may stand, a

In Saxon law. A betraying of one's lord or master.

Lat. In the civil law. A stone-quarry. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 2.

The law. LAGAN (Saxon liggam., ouba/re). Goods found at such a distance from shore that it was uncertain what coast they would be carried to, and therefore belonging to the finder.

lagemannns, I. l, law-man; a lawful man.

Same as Ligan.

Law.

In old E3ngliah law. A law day; a day of open court.

A juror. Cowell.

L. Lat. In old English law. A measure of ale. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 11. Said to consist of six sextaries. Cowell.

An unlawful act.

Law.

In old Bngll Bh law. Law; also used to express the territory or district in which a particular law was in force, as Dena lagu, the district under Danish law, etc LAHL8L1T (Saxon).

The term "lahar" means a large debris flow of mostly volcanic material that is— (A) often fast-moving; and (B) a hazard in watersheds downstream of volcanic peaks.

A breach of law. Cowell. A mulct for an offense, viz., twelve "ores."

A lawyer.

An old word for a lawyer. Domesday, I. 189.

lahslite, lagslit, laghslit, Saxon or Anglo-Danish law. A breach ishment for breaking the law.

A roadway lu a wood. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 483.

A laical or mercenary chaplaincy is one instituted without the intervention of ecclesiastical authority, does not require a title in order to be ordained, and is not subject to ecc

A layman.

Used in reference to ways, it describes all conditions of a way, such as a way voted to be built, a way being built, or a way built. The context usually determines the meaning of t

The name of a fine imposed upon those who committed adultery or fornication. Tech. Diet.

A fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of seme manors. 4 Inst. 206.

Laymen.

I. fr. To transfer; to leave.

I. fr. To prevent; to omit or or parchment affixed to a deed copy of a writ in the exchequer. of exertion, whether mental or sense in which the word is comexertion only. v. Hard la

Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. In the United States the division of the people into clergy and laity is not authorized by law, but is merely conventional.

Fresh-water lakes are bodies of standing water distinguishable from rivers chiefly by the fact that they have no current. The fact that there is a current from a higher to a lower

The term “Lake Champlain drainage basin” means all or part of Clinton, Franklin, Hamilton, Warren, Essex, and Washington counties in the State of New York and all or part of Frankl

The term “Lakeshore” means the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan.

“Lakewide Management Plan” means a written document which embodies a systematic and comprehensive ecosystem approach to restoring and protecting the beneficial uses of the open wat

The law favors the inheritance of a man. Yearb. M. 10 Hen. VI. 51.

The law favors a man's life. Y. B. Hen. VI. 51. LA LEY FAVOUR L'INHERITANCE d'un home. The law favors a man's inheritance. Y. B. Hen. VI. 51. LA LEY VOIT PLUS TOST SUFFER UN mischl

The law favors a man’s inheritance.

The law will sooner suffer a mischief than an inconvenience. Litt. § 231. It is holden for an inconvenience that any of the maxims of the law should be broken, though a private man

The law will rather suffer a mischief than an inconvenience.

The term “La Luz tract” means the tract comprised of approximately 31 acres of land owned in fee by the Pueblo and depicted on the map.

Fr. In French marine law. A pilot. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit 3.

The term “lamb” means meat, other than mutton, produced from sheep.

A collectlpn of the lavys of the Anglo-Saxons, William the Conqueror and Henry I., published in 1568 by William Lambard, keeper of the records in the tower. Marv. Leg. Bibl.; Allib

A work by William Lambard upon the office and duties of a justice of the peace. Editions were published in Latin in 1579 and 1581, and in English in 1599, See Marv. Leg. Bibl.; All

A degree given by archbishop of Canterbury. 1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 381, note. Although he can confer all degrees given by the two uniyersities, the graduates have many privileges '

A lame duck is one who is unable to meet his contracts in the exchange,— an insolvent Biddle, Br. 71. The expression "lame duck" would be actionable if applied to a person on the_

The term “laminated product” means a product— (I) in which a wood veneer is affixed to— (aa) a particleboard platform; (bb) a medium-density fiberboard platform; or (cc) a veneer-c

The 1st of August Cowell. It is one of the Scotch quarter days, and is what is called a “conventional term.” Moz. & W. “This was one of the four great pagan festivals of Britain,,

Land thrown open after harvest as common pasture.

Lands over which there is a right of pasturage by persons other than the owner from about Lammas, or reaping time, until sowing time. Wharton.

The term “lamp efficacy” means the lumen output of a lamp divided by its wattage, expressed in lumens per watt (LPW).

The term “lamp type” means all lamps designated as having the same electrical and lighting characteristics and made by one manufacturer.

The term “lamp wattage” means the total electrical power consumed by a lamp in watts, after the initial seasoning period referenced in the appropriate IES standard test procedure a

Lat. In the civll law. Wool See Dig. 32, 60, 70, 88.

See Court of the Duchy of .

Feudal vassals who labored one day a week for the landlord at certain seasons.

In feudal law. Vassals who were obliged to Work for their lord one day in the week, from Michaelnjas to autumn, either with fork, spade, or flail, at the lord's option. Spelman.

lands, waters, and interests therein.

[L. Lat. curialitas, curialitas Anglicana; lex Anglios; curtesia: L. Fr. curtesie Dengleterre,] An estate to which a man is by law entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands

An open field without wood; a lawnd or lawn. Cowell; Blount

“Land Acquisition Fund” means the Maine Indian Claims Land Acquisition Fund established under section 1724(c) of this title;

LANDHLAFORD, or LANDRICA. In Saxon law. A pro prietor of land; lord of the soil. Anc. Insi. Eng.

In Saxon law. A proprietor of land; lord of the soil. Ana Inst Eng.

persons who are members of the armed services and not to their civilian wives, children and other dependents.

The term “land and resource management plan” means a plan developed under section 1604 of this title .

I. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one's title or authority. In feudal law. To determine or pass upon judicially.

I. In the civil law. A praising or commending; a speaking in one's favor; testimony in favor of the character of an accused person.

A witness to character. LANDBOC (Saxon, from land, and hoe, a writing). In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or. held. Spelman; Cowell; 1 Reeve, H

A deed or charter to land.

or LAND CHEAP (land, and Saxon ceapan, to buy). A fine payable in money or cattle, upon the alienation of land, within certain manors and liberties. Cowell. LAND CLAUSES CONSOLIDAT

A certiflcate given to a registered proprietor of freehold land under the English Land Transfer Act of 1875. A similar certiflcate is given to the transferee on every subsequent tr

Same as Landceap.

The name of a court in the city of St. Louis, state of Missouri, having sole jurisdiction in St. Louis county in suits respecting lands, and in actions of ejectment, do^er, partiti

A convention of the Dutch in - LANDED. As used In a revenue act levying tolls on goods, the clear meaning and purport is “substantially imported,” and stones shot from boats to the

A term sometimes applied to the amount of compensation to he Pnih fur land taken under the power of eminent domain or for injury to, or depreciation of, land adjoining that taken.

That office of the United States government which bas jurisdiction and charge of the public lands, including the secretary of the interior and the commissioner of the general land

where ... the legal title to all these tracts of land is still in the government [and] no patents or conveyances of any kind have been executed ... it is not a province of the cour

The original finding respecting the character of the tract was not in itself final or conclusive, but essentially interlocutory. It was only a step in the proceedings looking to a

Generally speaking, the Land Department has jurisdiction until the legal title has passed... The question of title was in process of administration, and until the patent issued not

A division of a state or territory, created by federal authority, in which is located a United States land office, with a "register of the land office" and a "receiver of public mo

In old English law. A ditch or trench for conveying water from marshy grounds. Spelman.

Consisting in real estate or land; having an estate In land. —Landed estate. See Estate. —Landed estates conrt. The court which denis with the transfer of land and the creation of

See Estate.

A colloquial or popular phrase to denote real property. Landed estate ordinarily means an interest in and pertaining to lauds. Police Jury of Parish of St. Mary v. Harris, 10 La. A

The court which denis with the transfer of land and the creation of title thereto in Ireland.

Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency of Admiralty, of Probate, and Ecclesiastical Courts. By the

In English Law. Tribunals established by statute for the purpose of disposing more promptly and easily than could be done through the ordinary Judicial machinery, of incumbered rea

One’s interest in land or possession thereof.

Real estate. See 93 Md. 630, 52 L. R. A. 772, 49 Atl. 6oo.

Any person having an estate in lands, whether highly improved or not. Police Jury of Parish of St. Mary v. Harris, 10 La. Ann. 677.

“landed weight” means the weight of aircraft transporting only cargo in intrastate, interstate, and foreign air transportation, as the Secretary determines under regulations the Se

A landlord. LANDEGANDMAN (Saxon.) In old English law. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman. LANDIMER (Scotch; Lat. agrimensor). In old Scotch law. A me

An inferior tenant of a manor.

landiminm, I. In the civil lato. A sum paid by a new emphyteuta who acquires the emphyteusis, not as heir, but as a singular successor.

Land rent.

landgavel, sax. In old English law. A tax or rent issuing out of land; a quit rent

A legislative appropriation of a portion of the public domain either for charitable or eleemosynary purpose, or for the promotion of the construction of a railroad or other public

The term "land-grant college or university" includes a 1994 Institution (as defined in section 532 of the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (Public Law

The term “land-grant colleges and universities” means those institutions eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503–505, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 301–305, 30

In Germany, in the middle ages a graf or count entrusted with special Judicial functions, extending over a large extent of territory; later, the title of sovereign princes of the e