Law Dictionary

The law does not fail in showing justice.

SED ARbitrlo boni viri permittit. The law does not define exactly, but trusts in the judgment of a good man. 9 Mass. 475. LEX NON FAVET VOTIS DELICATOrum. The law favors not the wi

The law does not define exactly, but trusts in the judgment of a good man. Bissell v. Briggs, 9 Mass. 475, 9 Am. Dec. 88

The law does not define exactly, but allows for the judgment of a fair man.

The law favors not the wishes of the dainty. Broom, Max. 379; 9 Coke, 58.

The law does not favor the wishes of the fastidious.

The law does not intend anything impossible.

The law does not suffer fractions and divisions of estates. Branch, Princ.; 1 Coke, 87a.

The law does not suffer fractions and divisions of statutes.

QUIA inutilis labor stultus. The law commands not useless things, because useless labor is foolish. Co. Litt. 197; 5 Coke, 89a. LEX NON REQUIRIT VERIFICARE quod apparet curiae. The

The law does not order useless things, because useless labor is silly. See 112 Mass. 400.

The law does not require that to be verified [or proved] which is apparent to the court 9 Coke, 54b.

The law does not require to be proved that which is apparent to the court.

(Lat.) Law not written; unwritten law; a law originating plied to the common law of England, not in the literal sense of an unwritten or oral law, but in that of a law not derived

The same as lex fori, (q_. v.)

In Roman law. The Papian Poppaean law; a law proposed by the consuls Papius and Poppaeus at the desire of Augustus, A. U. 762, enlarging the lex Praetoria (q. v.). Inst. 3. 8. 2; H

In Roman law. The Papian Poppaean law; a law proposed by the consuls Papius and Poppaeus at the desire of Augustus, A. U. C. 762, enlarging the Lex Praetoria, (q. v.) Inst. 3, 8, 2

The law of one’s country.

The law forbidding masters to expose their slaves to contests with wild beasts. Inst. 1. 8. LEX p1.€T0RIA. The law for the protection of young persons who had not attained the age

A law designed for the protection of minors against frauds and allowing them in certain cases to apply for the appointment of a guardian. In a somewhat wider and more generic sense

The law which conferred the full rights of citizenship on Italy below the Po. Sand. Just Introd. § 11.

The law is more highly praised when it is approved by reason.

The law punishes falsehood. Jenk. Cent. p. 15, case 26.

The law abolishing the right of a creditor to sell or kill his debto't. Sohm, Kom. L. 210.

The law which inflicted a punishment on one who had caused the death of a parent or child. The offender was by this law to be sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an

A prior statute shall give place to a later. Mackeld. Civ. Law, 5; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 27.

In Roman law. The Praetorian law; a law by which every f reedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety to his patron. Inst. 3. 8. 1.

In Roman law. The Pretorian law. A law by which every freedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety Lo his patron. Inst. 3, 8,1. The term has been applied to the rules t

NON RESPICIT. The law looks forward, not backward. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 284. See "Retrospective Law."

The law looks forward, not backward.

The præ-torian law. A law by which every freedman who made a will was commanded to leave a moiety to his patron. Inst 3, 8, 1. The term has been applied to the rules that govern in

The law providing. that the plebiscita should bind the whole people. Inst 1. 2. The lex Puhlilia de aponaw allowed sponsores, unless reimbursed within six months, to recover from t

The law punishes falsehood. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 15.

A law by which it was claimed that the legislative power was transferred by the Roman people to the emperor. Inst. 1, 2. 6. Whether such a law was passed has been doubted. 1 Kent,

The law of the place of situation of the thing.

The law of the place where the thing is situated. See 136 Pa. St. 354, 20 Am. St. Rep. 925, 11 L. R. A. 85, 20 Atl. 521.

PUGNANtla, incongrua. The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incongruous things. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 133, 140, 176.

Jenk. Cent. 133. The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incongruous things.

The law rejects those matters which are superfluous, repugnant or incongruous.

The law disapproves of delay.

Law regards equity. See 14 Q. B. 504, 511, 512.

Co. Litt. 24b. The law pays regard to equity.

The Rhodian law, particularly the fragment of it on the subject of jettison {de jactu), preserved in the Pandects. Dig. 14. 2. 1; 3 Kent, Comm. 232, 233.

The Roman law fixing the right of a shipper whose goods were jettisoned to contribution from owners of the rest of the cargo.

See Civil Law; Roman Law.

Purgation by oath. Leg. H. 1. who settled in Gaul in the fifth centiiry. It is the oldest of the barbarian codes,! being said to have been framed about A. D. 422. The most celebrat

Purgation by oath.

Salic law, which see.

(B. C. 34.) The law abolishing the usucapio servitutis. Sohm, Rom. L. 265. LEX SCRiPTA. Written or statute law. See Jus EX Non Scripta.

The written law.

ID CUSTODI. ri oportet quod moribus et consuetudlne Inductum est; et, si qua in re lioc defecerit, tunc id quod proximum et consequens el est; et, si id non appareat, tunc Jus quo

7 Coke, 19. If the written law be silent, that which is drawn from manners and custom ought to be observed; and, if that is in any maimer defective, then that which is next and ana

Jenk. Cant. 15. The law assists the ignorant.

The law aids minors. Jenk. Cent. p. 51, case 97.

The law will always give a remedy. 3 Bouv. Inst, note 2411; Bac. Abr. "Actions in General" (B); Branch, Princ; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 181; 12 Adol. & E. 266; 7 Q. B. 451.

The law always gives a remedy. 5 Rawle (Pa.), 89.

The law always intends that which is agreeable to reason.

(B, 0. 123.) The law forbidding senators from being judges and allowing the office to the knights. Sand. Just. Introd. § 12.

the lex situs, the law of the place where the property is kept and used

The law regards the order of nature. Co. Litt. 197; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 231.

The laws succor the ignorant. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 15.

The law assists minors. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 67. LEX TALIONIS (Lat.) The law of retaliation, an example of which is given in the law of Moses, — an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,

The law of retaliation.

The law of the land. The common law, or the due course of the common law ; the general law of the land. Bract, fol. 17b. Equivalent to "due process of law." In the strictest sense,

The law of the land.

The Ælian Sentian law, respecting wills, proposed by the consuls Ælius and Sentius, and passed A. U. C. 756, restraining a master from manumitting his slaves in certain cases. Calv

The law speaks to all with one mouth. 2 Inst. 184.

The unwritten or common law, which includes general and particular customs, and particular local Jaws.

NON DORMIENTIbus subvenit. Law assists the wakeful, not the sleeping. 1 Story, Cent. (4th Ed.) 502.

The law favors the diligent.

The law aids the vigilant, not those who sleep.

(B. C. 169.) A ple Uadtum forbidding a legatee to receive more than each heir had. Inst. 2. 22. LEY (Old French; a corruption of loi). Law. For example, Termea de la Ley. Terms of

The Welsh law; the law of Wales. Blount.

The law of the Visigoths, or Western Goths, who settled in Spain; first reduced to writing A. D. 466. They were made by Euric, amended by Chindaswindus and Recaswindus. A revision

The law of the Visigoths, or Western Goths who settled in Spain; first reduced to writing A. D. 466. A revision of these laws was made by Egigas. Spelman. In old English law. A bod

Law; an oath.

In old English law. The civil or Roman law. Y. B. H. 8 Edw. III. 42. Otherwise termed ley escripte, the written law. Y. B. 10 Edw. III. 24.

In Spanish law. Laws of the style; a book of explanations of the Fuero Real, to the number of two hundred and fifty-two, formed under the authority of Alonzo X. and his son Sancho,

In Spanish law. A collection of laws, usually published as an appendix to the Fuero Real; treating of the mode of conducting suits, prosecuting them to judgment, and entering appea

Wager of law; an offer to make an oath denying the cause of action of the plaintiflF, confirmed by compurgators (q. v.), which oath used to be allowed in certain cases. When it was

An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion. See "I«se Majesty." Ul. LO. An abbreviation of licentia lo-

In old Sectch criminal law. Anoffense consisting in slanderous and untrue speeches, to the disdain,

Lawful birth; the condition of being burn in wedlock; the opposite of illegitimacy or bastardy.

An aneient writ that lay to remove a leper or lazar, who thrust himself into the company of his neighbors in any parish, either in the church or at

Lat. Leze-majesty, or injured majesty; high treason. It isa phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any olfense against the king’s person or dignity. LA#STO ULTRA DIMI

A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (except it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to the lord. Blount.

the term “liabilities” means— (A) with respect to a United States financial company— (i) the total risk-weighted assets of the financial company, as determined under the risk-based

“liability”— (A) means legal liability for damages (including costs of defense, legal costs and fees, and other claims expenses) because of injuries to other persons, damage to the

The term “Liability Claim” means, as it relates to a Liability— (A) right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent,

It is essentially a species of liability without fault, analogous to other well known instances in our law. Derived from and shaped to meet the hazards which performing the service

The term “liability insurance” means insurance for legal liabilities incurred by the insured resulting from— (i) loss of or damage to property of others; (ii) ensuing loss of incom

the liability of a surety is not to be extended, by implication, beyond the terms of his contract; that his undertaking is to receive a strict interpretation; and not to extend bey

The cases cited to show that the judgment must be for the whole sum, if the verdict find any assets, have been overruled... the law is now well understood to be, that the executor

The term “liability or legal expense” means— (i) any legal or other professional expense incurred in connection with any claim, proceeding, or action; (ii) the amount of, and any c

Carriers are liable to employees in damages whenever the failure to obey these Safety Appliance Laws is the proximate cause of injury to them when engaged in the discharge of duty.

It is a general principle of our law that there is no individual liability for an act which ordinary human care and foresight could not guard against. It is also a general principl

1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensation or restitution. 2. Exposed or subject to a given contingen

An old French coin, of silver or copper, formerly current to a limited extent in England, and there computed as equivalent to a farthing.

On that subject, we are of opinion, that in no case can it be necessary to state in a libel, any fact which constitutes the defence of the Claimant, or a ground of exception of the

In admiralty practice, to proceed against, by filing a libel; to seize under process, at the beginning of a suit. Applied commonly to the seizure of vessels.