Law Dictionary

The complainant or party who files a libel in an ecolesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff In ictions at law.

There would be much force in this argument, if the term 'information' were exclusively applicable to a proceeding at common law. But the court is of opinion that it has no such exc

A party against whom a libel has bcen filed in an ecclesiastical court or in admiralty.

It is a process of the nature of a libel in rem; and does not, in any degree, touch the person of the offender.

The party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case, corresponding to the plaintiff in actions in the common-law courts.

A party against whom a libel has been filed in proceedings in an ecclesiastical court or in admiralty, corresponding to the defendant in a common-law suit. LIBELLUS (Lat.) — 1 — In

In the civil law. The statement of a plaintiff's claim in a petition presented to the magistrate, who directed an officer to deliver it to the defendant.

A libel.

In the civil law. The statement of a plaintiff's claim in a petition presented to the magistrate, who directed an olficer to deliver it to the defendant. LIBELLUS FAMOSUS (Lat.) A

A defamatory libel.

In Scotch law. The instrument which contains the charge against a person accused of a crime. Libels are of two kinds, namely, indictments and criminal letters. Every libd assumes t

A defamatory publication is libelous per se when the words are of such a character that an action may be brought upon them without the necessity of showing any special damage, the

Constituting a libel.

A book.

adj. Free; exempt from the power or authority of another; exempt from a charge or burden. Liber homo. A free man. 1. In the Roman law, every man not a 2. In early English law, a ma

A delivery of so much com or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn and received some portion of it as a reward or gratuity. Cowell. LIBERAL (

In old records, A. free boat; the right of having a boat to fish in a certain water; a species of free fishery.

1. 1 In old English law. A free having a boat to fish in a certain water; a Libera chasea, or chacia: a free chasa Libera alms; frank-almoign. Libera falda: frank foldage. Libera l

Free chase, the exclusive right to hunt.

A judicial writ granted to a person for a frea chase belonging to his manor after proof made by inquiry of a jury that the same of right belongs to him, Wharton.

See Execution, 3, Writs of.

Free alms. See Frankalmoigne .

Frank-fold, which see.

Interpretation according to the spirit rather than the letter. See 43 U. S. 426, 11 L. Ed. 326.

where a treaty fairly admits of two constructions, one restricting the rights that may be claimed under it and the other enlarging them, the more liberal construction is to be pref

Frank law, which see.

Even where a provision of a treaty fairly admits of two constructions, one restricting, the other enlarging rights which may be claimed under it, the more liberal interpretation is

To lose one's free law (called the villainous judgment) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those land

Free fishery, which see.

In the Civil Law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calv. Lex. In Old English Law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels of jurors,

The book of the Assizes. The fourth volume of decisions reported in the reign of Edward III.

The restoration of money does not free the offeror.

Deliver ye. An old writ for the payment of a pension; a writ for lands seized by the sheriff on a recognizance; a writ to release one imprisoned.

At the very least, the proviso's language must mean that the kidnapped person shall not be suffering from injuries when liberated.

In Old Scotch Law. Livery; a fee given to a servant or officer. Skene de Verb. Sign. Money, meat, drink, clothes, etc., yearly given and delivered by the lord to his domestic serva

In civil law. The extinguishment of a contract, by which he who was bound becomes free or liberated. Wolff. Dr. Nat. § 749. Synonymous with "payment." Dig. 50. 16. 47.

Free warren, which see.

Free bench, which see.

I. Freely,— a formal word in old conveyances. to hold freely, — words which, in a gift of land effect of making him a freeman.

A free and lawful man; a juryman.

The book of fiefs, a code of feudal law compiled in the 12th century.

A freeman.

In Saxon Law. Freemen; the possessors of allodial lands. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. law, 5. In the Civil Law. Children. The term included "grandchildren." LIBERI CHASEA (or CHACIA) (Law L

The Dome-Book of King Alfred. See 1 Bl. Comm. 64.

Black book. Aname given to several ancient records,

(the black book of the king’s household.) The title of a book in which there is an account of the household establishment of King Mdward LY., and of the several musicians retained

The black book of the exchequer, attributed te Gervase of Tilbury. 1 Reeve, Eng, Law, 220, note.

A writ to prohibit bailiffs, etc., from levying a distress upon any man without the king’s writ touching his freehold. Cowell. NON INFREGIT CON VENTION EM (Lat. he has not broken t

The red book of the exchequer. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 220, note.

Liberty; freedom; a privilege; a franchise.

Church liberty, or ecclesiastical immunity. LIBERTAS EST NATURALIS FACULtas ejus quod cuique facere libet, nisi quod de jure aut vi prohibetur. Liberty is the natural power of doin

Go. Litt. 116. Liberty is that natural faculty which permits every one to do anything he pleases except that which is restrained by law or force.

Liberty is one’s natural power of doing as he pleases, unless that is prohibited by law or by force.

Liberty is an inestimable good. Dig. 50. 17. 106; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 51, § 13. LIBERTAS NON RECIPIT AESTIMAtionem. Freedom does not admit a valuation. Bracton, 14, LIBERTAS OMNIBUS

Liberty is an inestimable thing; a thing above price. Dig. 50, 17, 106.

Liberty does not admit of valuation.

Liberty is more favored than ali things, [anything.] Dig. 50, 17, 122.

Liberty is more favored than all other things.

Royal orivilecres relating to the crown issue from the crown by royal grant.

2 Inst. 496. Royal franchises relating to the crown have emanated from the crown by grant of kings.

A writ lying for a citizen or burgess, impleaded contrary to his liberty, to have his privilege allowed. Reg. Orig. 262. LIBERTATIBUS EXIGENDIS IN ITINEre. An ancient writ, whereby

An ancient writ whereby the king commanded the justices in eyre to admit of an attorney for the defense of another's liberty. Reg. Orig. 19.

or LIBERTINL In Roman law. The condition of those who, having been slaves, had been made free. 1 Brown, Civ. Law, 99. There is some distinction between these words. By libertua was

A destroyer of liberty.

Privileged districts exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction.

Lat. In Roman law. Freedman. There seems to have been some difference in the use of these two words; the former denoting the manumitted slaves considered in their relations with th

I. In the civil law. A freed-man; one who was manumitted from lawful servitude

Co. Litt. 137. The civll laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England regard a man once manumitted as ever after free.

The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his former servitude, but the laws of England adjudge one once freed to be always free.

I. In the civil law. A freed-man.

something more than freedom from physical restraint or imprisonment.

(PERSONAL.) Per- license are to suspend or relax the sonal liberty consists in the power of rules of war to the extent of the aulocomotion, of changing situation, or thority given.

In marine insurance. A license or permission incorporated in a marine policy allowing the vessel to touch and trade at a designated port other than the principal port of destinatio

Liberty of circulating is as essential to that freedom as liberty of publishing; indeed, without the circulation, the publication would be of little value.

Religious liberty, as defined below.

Such liberty and right embrace the right to make contracts for the purchase of the labor of others, and equally the right to make contracts for the sale of one's own labor; each ri

The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept inst

the right "to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control." We explained in " Pierce "that "[t]he child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nur

The right to speak facts and express opinions. Whart. Diet The liberty of speech which both the federal and state constitutions protect is (1) Liberty of speech of legislators in p

As used in a marine insurance policy, meaning that the vessel may go anywhere. See 6 Whart. (Pa.) 247.

principally although not exclusively, immunity from previous restraints or (from) censorship

A privilege to go out of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons witibin certain limits, and there reside. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22.

The unlawful raising of a pole as a symbol of dissatisfaction with the government. See 1 Add. (Pa.) 274.

The liberty of having a court of one's own. Thus certain lords had the privilege of holding pleas within their own manors.

The liberty of having a court of one's own. Thus,' cer- LIBERUM CORPUS AESTIMATIONEM non recipit. The body of a freeman does i)Ot admit of valuation. Dig. 9. 3. 7, LIBERUM EST CUIQ

The liberty referred to in that Amendment is the liberty of natural, not artificial, persons. Nor, in any true, constitutional sense, does the Missouri statute deprive life insuran

Lat. Free. Liberum corpus: a free body; the body or life of a freeman; — aestimationem non recipit, or — nullam recipit aestimationem: the body of a freeman does not admit of valua

The body of a freeman does not admit of valuation.

Dig. 9, 3, 7. The body of a freeman does not admit of valuation.

Each one is free to test for himself whether he requires advice.

Frank marriage, which see.

Free service; service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called servitium liherum armorum. Somn. Gavelkind, p. 56; Jacob; 4 Coke, 9. Service not unbecoming characte

In old English law. Free socage. Bracton, fol. 207; 2 Bl. Comm. 61, 62.

In Real Law. Freehold; frank tenement. 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1690; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 46. In Pleading, A plea in justification by the defendant in an action of trespass, by which he

In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particularly that kind which consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philters,

In Saxon law. Bewitching any person; also a barbarous sacrifice. LIBRA ARSA (Law Lat.) In old English law. A pound burned; that is, melted, or assayed by melting, to test its purit

The term "LIBOR"— (A) means the overnight and 1-, 3-, 6-, and 12-month tenors of U.S. dollar LIBOR (formerly known as the London interbank offered rate) as administered b

The term "LIBOR contract" means any contract, agreement, indenture, organizational document, guarantee, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, security (whether representing deb

The term "LIBOR replacement date" means the first London banking day after June 30, 2023, unless the Board determines that any LIBOR tenor will cease to be published or c

In the term books is included all volumes, whether of paper, of parchment or of some other material. .