Law Dictionary

A proprietor of land; lord of the soil. Anc. Inst. Eng. See Land-

The term “landholding” means total irrigable acreage of one or more tracts of land situated in one or more districts owned or operated under a lease which is served with irrigation

the term “landholding agency” means a Federal department or agency with statutory authority to control real property;

In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene.

Measures of land. Cowell.

A place on a river or other navigable water for lading and unloading goods, or for the reception and delivery of passengers. See 1 Strob. L. (S. C.) 110, 47 Am. Dec. 548.

In this chapter, the terms “aircraft engine”, “air navigation facility”, “appliance”, “civil aircraft”, “foreign air commerce”, “interstate air commerce”, “landing area”, “overseas

The voyage is understood to be terminated when the vessel arrives at her port of destination, and has been moored there in safety for twenty-four hours. But it will be conceded tha

A place laid out by a town as a common landing place and used as such, but not desigpated as for the particular benefit of the town, is a 'public landing place. It is not, however,

In Saxon law. Services and duties laid upon all that held land, including the three obligations called "trinoda necessitas" (g. v.); quasi land rights. Cowell.

A location usually consists of some general description which designates the place in which the particular object is to be found, and of a description of the particular object itse

Wholly surrounded by land of some other person or persons, as when the owner of a close surrounded by his own land grants the land and reserves the close. L R. 13 Ch. Div. 798, In

an owner, lessor, sublessor, or other person entitled to receive rent for the use or occupancy of any housing accommodations.

A phrase used to denote the familiar legal relation existing between lessor and lessee of real estate. The relation is contractual, and is constituted by a lease (or agreement ther

an implied or tacit lien, created by law to secure the performance of another contract

A warrant of distress. A written authority from a landlord to a constable or bailiff authorizing him to make a distress upon the tenant’s goods and chattels In order to force the p

Same as land tenant.

The term “land management activity” means all activities, accomplished in support of the management of Indian agricultural lands, including (but not limited to)— (A) preparation of

the term "land management agency" means— (A) the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture; (B) the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior; (C)

The term “land manager” means a person or entity that practices or guides natural resource management. / The term “land manager” includes a Federal, State, local, or tribal land ma

A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For. removing a landmark an action lies. 1 Thomas, Co. Litt. 787. See "Monument."

The term “land mortgage” means a mortgage obtained by an individual Indian who owns a tract of trust land for the purpose of— (A) home acquisition; (B) home construction; (C) home

A government bureau established in 1812, originally connected with the treasury, l)ut since 1849 forming a division of the Department of the Interior. The commissioner of the gener

Governmental offices, subordinate to the general land office, established in various parts of the United States, for the transaction of local business relating to the survey, locat

“land or natural resources” means any real property or natural resources, or any interest in or right involving any real property or natural resource, including but not limited to,

The term "landowner" means a person that owns a fee interest in real property on which a proposed energy project or antenna structure project is planned to be located. /

The state of owning much unproductive land. See 46 Mich. 393, 9 N. W. 445.

A person whose business it is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings

See Land Title and TRANsras; Registration; Recording.

The term “land remote sensing” means the collection of data which can be processed into imagery of surface features of the Earth from an unclassified satellite or satellites, other

An income derived from crown lands in Great Britain. These lands have been so largely granted away to subjects tliat they are now contracted within very narrow limits. The crown wa

not only land itself, but everything connected therewith in the way of buildings, structures, and improvements, and all rights and privileges appertaining thereto.

TENEMENTS, AND HEREDITA-

TENEMENTS, AND HERE-

The secretary of the English charity commissioners. He is a corporation sole for the purpose ef taking and holding real property and leaseholds upon trust for an endowed charity in

Lands are to be considered as chattels in Pennsylvania, for the payment of debts. In some counties of this State, and throughout the State of Delaware, the writs of Fi. Fa. always

The term “Landsat 6 contractor” means the private sector entity which was awarded the contract for spacecraft construction, operations, and data marketing rights for the Landsat 6

The term “Landsat 7” means the follow-on satellite to Landsat 6. / The term “Landsat 7” means the follow-on satellite to Landsat 6.

The term “Landsat Program Management” means the integrated program management structure— (A) established by, and responsible to, the Administrator and the Secretary of Defense purs

The term “Landsat system” means Landsats 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and any follow-on land remote sensing system operated and owned by the United States Government, along with any relat

— '(2) all lands permanently or periodically covered by tidal waters up to but not above the line of mean high tide and seaward to a line three geographical miles distant from the

The law does not recognize any easement or right of property in a landscape or prospect. Therefore the owner of a villa has no right to abate, as a nuisance, a building which mars

the term "lands eligible for remining" means those lands that would otherwise be eligible for expenditures under section 1234 of this title or under section 1232(g)(4) of

To justify the annulment of a homestead patent as wrongfully covered mineral land, it must appear that at the time of the proceedings which resulted in the patent the land was know

In Swedish law. A body toms of every province; being analogous to the common law of England. 1 Bl. Comm. 66.

The term “lands or natural resources” means any real property or natural resources, or any interest in or right involving any real property or natural resources including but not l

Land station: The words “land station” mean a factory on the land at which whales are treated or processed, whether wholly or in part. / The term “land station” means a station, ot

The technical and most comprehensive description of real property, as "goods and chattels" is of personalty. Williams, Real Prop. 5.

An agent who has the management and control of landed estate belonging to an Individual or state.

The term “land subject to a qualified conservation easement” means land— (i) which is located in the United States or any possession of the United States, (ii) which was owned by t

“lands within any State” or “lands within such State” means all lands within a State other than Federal lands and Indian lands;

“lands within any State” or “lands within such State” means all lands within a State other than Federal lands and Indian lands;

A tax on beneficial proprietor of land. So far as a tenant is beneficial proprietor, and no farther, does it rest on him. It has superseded all other methods of taxation in Great B

One in possession of land.

An English statute (38 & 39 Viet. c. 87) providing for the establishment of a registry for titles to real property, and making sundry provisions for the transfer of lands and the r

I. I. In old Scots law. Sentence or judgment; dome or doom.

The term “land use” means activities which are conducted in, or on the shorelands within, the coastal zone, subject to the requirements outlined in section 1456(g) of this title .

The term “land used in farming” means land used (before or simultaneously with the expenditures described in paragraph (1)) by the taxpayer or his tenant for the production of crop

“land use ordinance” or “ordinance” means any ordinance adopted by a county or by the Commission pursuant to sections 544 to 544p of this title, and includes any amendment to, revi

The term “land use plan” means— (A) a land use plan prepared by the Secretary pursuant to section 1712 of title 43 ; and (B) a land management plan prepared by the Forest Service f

The term “land use regulation” means a zoning or landmarking law, or the application of such a law, that limits or restricts a claimant's use or development of land (including a st

In English law. An officer of the custom house, Whose duty Is, upon landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports

(Scotch). Rural.

A warrant for land under the Virginia system may strictly be termed a chose in action. It is the mere evidence of executory contract between the State and a citizen. Bounties in la

A lord of a manor. 1 Inst. 5.

The lords of manors. 1 Co. Inst. 5.

An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Mon. Angl. 419.

I. Sick in prison; a sheriff's return to a capias.

I. I. In old English law. Sickness; a confirmed and lingering sickness.

The medium for the communication of perceptions and ideas. Spoken language is that wherein articulate sounds are used. Written language is that wherein written characters are used,

The term “language instruction educational program” means an instruction course— (A) in which an English learner is placed for the purpose of developing and attaining English profi

For purposes of this section, the term “language minorities” or “language minority group” means persons who are American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Natives, or of Spanish heri

persons who are American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Natives or of Spanish heritage.

de jurisprudence exprimés dans ces codes, 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 1826.

Sick.

Sick in prison.

(Law Lat.) In old English practice. Sickness; a confirmed and lingering sickness, as distinguished from a transient indisposition. Bract, fol. 340, 344b, 352b, 357b. Skene defines

the term “Lanham Act” means the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain internati

etc. An ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in Wales. Reg. Orig. 279.

Anciently a lawyer. Maitl. Domesd. 189. It seems to be another form of lage man, which see. LAIC US (Eccl. Lat.). A layman; laic; one not belonging to the priesthood. Harper’s Lat.

A sort of base coin, formerly current in England. Cowell.

I. Praise be to God; an old heading to bills of exchanga Lan^hlesnian, I. In old English law. An outlaw.

In Spanish law. A certain contribution in money paid by the grandees and other high officers in lieu of the soldiers they ought to furnish government in time of war.

Execution by stoning.

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

Lat In the civil law. Precious stones. Dig. 34, 2, 19, 17. Distinguished from "gems," (gemmæ.) Id.

A marble stone about twelve feet long and three feet broad, placed at the upper end of Westminster Hall, where was likewise a marble chair erected on the middle thereof, in which t

The overlapping of a boundary. See 131 N. C. 491, 42 S. E. 957.

To glide; to pass slowly, silently, or by degrees, to slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. See "Lapsed Devise"; "Lapsed Legacy." In Ecclesiastical Law. The transfer, by

To fall, slip or sink; to fail of its object; to become void. Lapsed: become ineffectual; failed of its destination. Lapsed devise: a devise which fails, or takes no effect, in con

The loss of the right of a patron to present a clerk to a benefice by not doing so in time.

A devise which has lapsed, or does not take effect because of the death of devisee before testator.

A legacy which, on account of the death of the legatee before the period arrives for the payment of the legacy, lapses or deviates from the course prescribed by the testator, and f

A patent issued to petitioner for land; a patent for which land to another party has lapsed through neglect of patentee. The lapse patent relates to date of original patent, and ma

A slip of the tongue. See 85 Ga. 482, 21 Am. St. Rep. 169, 11 S. E. 853.

The left side of a ship or boat when one stands with his face towards the bow. The opposite term is starboard, which is the right-hand side looking forward. The word is now, howeve

Thieving; pertaining to, characterized by, or tainted with, larceny; as a larcenous taking. Larcenous purpose, an intention to commit larceny. See Larceny.

A larcenous intent exists where a man knowingly takes and carries away the goods of another without any claim or pretense of right, with intent wholly to deprive the owner of them

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to

A statutory offense existing in one or two states, consisting of the fraudulent conversion of property by a bailee thereof. The offense is covered by the ordinary statutes against