Law Dictionary

The king (or the queen) wills it. The form of the royal assent to public bilis in parliament. —Le roy (or la reine) remercie ses loyal sujets, accepte leur henevoleuce, et ainsi le

The king (or queen) will advise upon it. The form of words used to express the refusal of the royal assent to public bills in parliament 1 Bl. Comm. 184. This is supposed to corres

The king thanks his loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence and thus wishes it to be.

The (plural).

The welfare of the people is the highest law.

Trees fallen by chanco or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 341.

Laese Majesty. (Law Pr. leze majest.) The old English and Scotch translation of liesa majestas, or high treason. 2 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 6. See "Leze Majesty."

High treason.

et non la loi des fictions. Fictions arise from the law, and not law from fictions. LES LOIS NE SE CHARGENT DE PUNIR que les actions exteriures. Laws do not undertake to punish oth

Fictions arise from law and not law from fictions.

In civil law. A term used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of situation, by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutativ

The laws do not assume to punish other than overt acts.

A subordinate forest officer.

A legacy.

of protecting the State's interest: greater reliance on the summary disenrollment procedures of § 332 of the State's election law and loyalty oaths, restrictive party affiliation r

even though the governmental purpose be legitimate and substantial, that purpose cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties when the end can be m

The term “lessee” means a natural person who leases or is offered a consumer lease. / the term “lessee” means the holder of an 1890 lease which either expires in 1991 or is one of

That a lessee will not be allowed to deny the title of his lessor, is admitted; but it is not admitted that a contract executed for the purpose of conveying and acquiring an estate

The terms “grantees” and “lessees” include (without limiting the generality thereof) all political subdivisions, municipalities, public and private corporations, and other persons

In this subsection, the term “lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African country” means— (A) a beneficiary sub-Saharan African country that had a per capita gross national pr

Lesser Included Offense Defined.—In this section (article), the term "lesser included offense" means— (1) an offense that is necessarily included in the offense charged;

the lesser offense must be included within but not, on the facts of the case, be completely encompassed by the greater. A lesser-included offense instruction is only proper where t

does not, by itself, render the search unreasonable.

The term “lessor” means a person who is regularly engaged in leasing, offering to lease, or arranging to lease under a consumer lease. / the terms “rail carrier” and “lessor” inclu

The one who really sues in ejectment.

The law as to leases is not a matter of logic in vacuo; it is a matter of history that has not forgotten Lord Coke. Massachusetts has followed the English tradition and we believe

the lessor, after entry, has not the absolute discretion to relet or not to relet the premises, but ... it is his duty to 'prevent unnecessary loss or diminution of rent in consequ

The right which the lessor has over the products of the estate, and on the movables which are found on the place leased, for his rent, is of a higher nature than mere privilege. Th

Fr. In French maritime law. Ballast. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit 4, art. 1.

or LASTAGE (Saxon last, burden). A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley. LESWES- Lesues. Pastures. Domesday. Co. Litt. 4b. A term

Lestage free or exempt from the duty of paying ballast money CowelL

A cnstom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta. 1. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley.

Lastage or lestage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Cowell

These phrases are employed in the old law of conveyancing to point out the mode in which releases of land operate. A release might be a conveyance of a right to a person in possess

sax. In old English law. Acquittance from lestage,

lastus, I. I In old English law. A last; a measure of commodities.

Pasture land.

Hindrance; obstacle; obstruction. To lease; to grant the use and possession of a thing for compensation. It is the correlative of "hire." See "Hire." LETRADO (Spanish). In Spanish

To permit; to give leave to; to demise or lease; to deliver; to award, as a contract Let in: to admit a party as matter of favor.

Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn oftheday. They are also denominated “quadragesimalia.” Wharton.

For purposes of this section the term “lethal binary chemical munitions” means (1) any toxic chemical (solid, liquid, or gas) which, through its chemical properties, is intended to

The term “lethal chemical agent and munition” means a chemical agent or munition that is designed to cause death, through its chemical properties, to human beings in field concentr

A gun, sword, knife, pistol, or the like, when used within striking distance; and any other weapon is lethal or not according to its capability of producing death or great bodily h

In Scotch law. A dendly weapon.

In practice. To admit a party as a matter of favor; as to open a judgment and "let the defendant in" to a defense.

In Spanish law. An advocate. White, New Recop. hi 1, tit. 1, c. 1, § 3, note.

He who, being the owner of a

A book containing the copies of letters written by a merchant or trader or other person to his correspondents. A press copy In a letter book stands in the same relation to the orig

A person employed to carry letters from the post office to the persons to whom they are addressed. Provisions were made by the act of March 3, 1851 (11 U. S. St. at Large, 691), fo

In English law. A request addressed to a peer, peeress, or lord of parliament, against whom a bill has been filed, desiring the defendant to appear and answer the bill. It is issue

A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written; generally informing him of some commercial transaction by the writer of the letter

In Scotch law. The decree or warrant of the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings in the matter, and advocating the act

a letter of attorney may, at any time, be revoked by the party who makes it; and is revoked by his death. But this general rule, which results from the nature of the act, has susta

In international law. A written instrument addressed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a state to the sovereign or state to whom a public minister is sent, certifying his app

The present is intended as a letter of credit in favour of my regarded friends, Messrs. J. and T. Robson, to the amount of forty or fifty thousand dollars, which sum they may wish

See Bill op Exchange.

The term “letter of interest” means a letter submitted by a potential applicant prior to an application for credit assistance in a format prescribed by the Secretary on the website

An instrument or writing made by creditors to their insolvent debtor, by which they bind themselves to allow him a longer time than he had a right to, for the pajrment of his debts

A commission given to a private ship by a government fo make reprisals on the ships of another state; hence, also, the ship thus commissioned.

A commission granted by the government to a private individual, to take the property of a foreign state, or of the citizens or subjects of such state, as a reparation for an injury

A written document addressed by the executive of one government to the executive of another, informing the latter that a minister sent by the former to him has been recalled.

An instrument given by one person to another, addressed to a third, in which the bearer is represented as worthy of credit. 1 Bell, Comm. (5th Ed.) 371; 3 Term R. 51; 7 Cranch (U.

A docuhe was accredited. It is addressed to the executive of the minister's country. This is in reply to the "letter of recall."

See PhESS Copies; Letter Book. LETTERS AO COLLIGENDUM BONA

Epistles; despatches; written messages, usually on paper, folded up and sealed, and sent by one person to another. 1 Caines (N. Y.) 582. LETTERS AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DEfuncti. In pr

Letters to collect the goods of a decedent. See Special letters of administration .

Close letters are grants of the king, and, being of private concern, they are thus distinguished from "letters patent."

Ab solvatory letters, used in former times, when an abbot released any of his brethren ab omnia subjectione et obedientia, etc., and made them capable of entering into some other o

Letters of administration are a trust. They are granted by the probate court or ordinary because of confidence reposed in the grantee. They require him to take exclusive charge of

The appointment of an executor vests the whole personal estate in the person so appointed. He holds as trustee for the purposes of the will, but he holds the legal title in all the

Letters issued for the temporary purpose of enabling some one to collect and hold the assets pending" a controversy as to the right to have letters of administration or letters tes

In Scotch law. Letters are admissible in evidence against the panel, i. e., the prisoner at the bar, in criminal trials. A letter written by the panel is evidence against him; not

(Scotch) A warrant citing witnesses in aid of one accused of crime.

See "Fire and Sword."

in the law Scotland, are letters running in the sovereign’s name and passing the signet. They ure directed to messengers at arms, as sheriffs in that part, (%. e, persons specially

A government commission to attack the ships and seize the property of a hostile nation on the high seas. See 25 Fed. (U. S.) 408.

In English ecclesiastical law. An instrument by which a judge of an inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in favor of a court of appeal immediately superior to it. L

Passports issued in time of war.

or SLANES. punishment. They were also granted Letters subscribed by the relatives of a per- king for the purpose of shielding his sou who had been slain, declaring that they ites o

Letters subscribed by the relatives of a person who had been slain, declaring that they had received an assythment, and concurring in an application to the crown for a pardon to th

In Scotch practice. A process by which a party not residing within the jurisdiction of an inferior court may be cited to appear before It Bell.

The name of an Instrument granted by the government to convey a right to the patentee; as, a patent for a tract of land; or to secure to him a right which he already possesses, as,

In Civil Law. See Letters. Rogatory.

An instrument sent in the name and by the authority of a judge or court to another, requesting the latter to cause to be examined, upon interrogatories filed in a cause depending b

The formal instrument in writing granted to an executor by the judge or officer having jurisdiction of the probate of wills, stating his appointment as executor, and authorizing hi

In American law. The act of awarding a contract. This term is much used in the United States, and most frequently in relation to contracts to construct railroads, canals, or other

Fr. In French law. A letter. It is used, like our English "letter," for a formal instrument giving authority. —Lettres de cachet. Letters issued and signed by the kings of France,

(French) A bill of exchange.

Letters issued and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state, authorising the Imprisonment of a person. Abol-lished during the revolution of 1789.

The term “low-enriched uranium” or “LEU” means each of— (A) low-enriched uranium (as defined in section 2297h) of this title; and (B) low-enriched uranium (as defined in section 22

LEUGA, or LEGA (Law Lat.) In Old French Law. A league, consisting of fifteen hundred paces. Spelman. In Old English Law. A league or mlie of a thousand paces. Domesday Book; Spelma

Leodis. (Law Lat.) In old European law. A vassal; a liege man or feudal dependant; a retainer; a feudal tenant; a crown vassal or baron; alasmian; a common or illiterate person, Sp

For the purpose of lightening the ship.

Lat For the sake of lightening the ship; denotes a purpose of throwing overboard goods, which renders them subjects of general average.

Rising up.

Same as levant et couchant. Applied by Bracton to villeins, who lived on their lord's estate. Bracton, fol. 6b. LEVARI FACIAS (Lat. that you cause to be levied). In Practice. A wri

Rising up and lying down.

1. 1. In old English law. To raise, lift, set, put or cast up; to build or construct; to levy. Levare domum: to raise or erect a house. Levare fossatnm: to throw up a dyke or ditch

A writ of execution. See 6 W. & S. (Pa.) 483.