Law Dictionary

In old English law. A pound; also a sum of money equal to a pound sterling. —Libra arsa. A pound burned ; that is, melted, or assayed by melting, to test its purity. Libras arias e

A burned or tested pound.

A pound of money counted instead of being weighed. Spelman,

A pound estimated by count.

A weighed pound.

The term “Librarian” means the Librarian of Congress. / the term “Librarian” means the Librarian of Congress; / the term “Librarian” means the Librarian of Congress;

the term “Librarian of Congress” means the Librarian of Congress appointed pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 136–1 ; 1

PUBLIC. A public library has been held to be “an association or institution of learning”; Philadelphia Library Co. V. Donohugh, 12 Phila. (Pa.) 2S4, affirmed in Appeal of Donohugh,

An amanuensis.

For purposes of this subsection, the terms “library” and “archives” mean any library or archives, respectively, that qualifies for the limitations on exclusive rights under section

The term "Library claimant" means, with respect to a direct provision, an employee of the Library of Congress who is covered by that direct provision. / The term “Library

The term “library consortium” means any local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library entities which provides for the systematic and e

In this subsection, the term "Library visitor" means an individual who is eligible to bring a claim for a violation under title II or III of the Americans with Disabiliti

Land renting at one pound annually.

A portion of ground containing four oxgangs, and every oxgang fourteen acres. Cowell. This is the same with what in Scotland was called "pound-land" of old extent Wharton.

A weigher.

Under the name of books are contained all volumes, whether upon paper or parchment or any other material. Dig. 32, 52, pr.

An of: ficer of the army whose rank is above thatof &@ major and below that of a colonel.

In Spanish law. Lawyer or advocate. By a decree of the Spanish government of 6th November, 1843, it was declared that all persons who have obtained diplomas of "Licentiates in Juri

permission, or authority; and a license to do any particular thing, is a permission or authority to do that thing; and if granted by a person having power to grant it, transfers to

The term “license availability date” means January 1 following the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the enactment date.

The name given to the group of cases including Peirce v. New Hampshire, 5 How. 504 , 12 L. Ed. 256, decided by the United States supreme court in 1847, to the effect that state law

The term “licensed” means— (A) in the case of a wholesale distributor, having a valid license in accordance with section 353(e) of this title or section 360eee–1(a)(6) of this titl

The term “licensed activity” means an activity licensed pursuant to this chapter and covered by the provisions of section 2210(a) of this title .

The terms “firearm”, “handgun”, “licensed importer”, “licensed manufacturer”, and “licensed dealer” have the meanings stated in section 921(a) of title 18 , as amended by subsectio

The term “licensed health care practitioner” means any physician (as defined in section 1861(r)(1) of the Social Security Act) and any registered professional nurse, licensed socia

The term "licensed health care provider" means a health care provider employed by the Department who is licensed, certified, or registered within any State to fill or pre

In this paragraph, the term “licensed health professional” means a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, physical, speech, or occupational therapist, physical or occu

The terms “firearm”, “handgun”, “licensed importer”, “licensed manufacturer”, and “licensed dealer” have the meanings stated in section 921(a) of title 18 , as amended by subsectio

The terms “firearm”, “handgun”, “licensed importer”, “licensed manufacturer”, and “licensed dealer” have the meanings stated in section 921(a) of title 18 , as amended by subsectio

The terms “licensed health care practitioner”, “licensed practitioner”, and “practitioner” mean, with respect to a State, an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized by t

it is an essential ingredient of the offense that the products have been stored for interstate or foreign commerce, or in a place subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Unite

The term “licensed service area” means the geographic area in which the home service provider is authorized by law or contract to provide commercial mobile radio service to the cus

a person who holds a license authorizing the practice of social work, which includes social services to individuals, groups or communities in any one or more of the fields of socia

The term “licensed State” means any State, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islan

A term applied, in England, to all persons selling any kind of Intoxicating liquor under a license from the justices of the peace. Wharton.

If the contract stipulates for possession by the vendee, or the vendor puts him in possession, he holds as a licensee. The relation of landlord and tenant does not subsist between

The general rule is that the licensee under a patent license agreement may not challenge the validity of the licensed patent in a suit for royalties due under the contract.

The fee was held to be 'not a revenue tax, but one to meet the expense incident to the administration of the act and to the maintenance of public order in the matter licensed'.

we construe the phrase 'license, fee, or excise required by the State * * *' as equivalent to 'license, fee, or excise of the State. * * *' Thus read, the phrase merely indicates C

The price paid to governmental or municipal authority for a license to engage in and pursue a particular calling or occupation. See Home Ins. Co. v. Augusta, 50 Ga. 537 ; Levi v. L

Coastwise endorsement.—The terms “license”, “enrollment and license”, “license for the coastwise (or coasting) trade”, and “enrollment and license for the coastwise (or coasting) t

the term "license holder" means the holder of an application approved under subsection (c) or (j) of section 355 of this title or the holder of a license under subsection

A license authorizing a conveyance of property which, without it, would be invalid under the statutes of mortmain.

subsection (2)(b) refers only to those taxes which are essential to the functioning of the host State's licensing and registration laws in their application to the motor vehicles o

The tax imposed is not merely an exercise of the police power regulating a business, but is a tax assessed as a condition upon which the license issues. Though it fulfils the doubl

- ing that "no person is a trespasser by merely entering therein" unless the property owner has given "due notice" that such a person is banned.

A license to prosecute the coasting trade, is a warrant to traverse the waters washing or bounding the coasts of the United States. Such a license conveys no privilege to use, free

agency process respecting the * * * denial * * * of a license.' § 2(e).

This expression is applied by Hallam (Const. Hist c. 13) to acts of parliament for the restraint of printing, except by license. It may also be applied to any act of parliament pas

The term “Licensing Area” means all waters under the jurisdiction of a Pacific Island Party, except for internal waters, territorial seas, archipelagic waters, and any Closed Area.

The term "licensing authority" means any State board, commission, department, or agency that— (A) is established in the State for the primary purpose of regulating the en

The term “licensing period” means the period of validity of licenses issued in accordance with the Treaty.

Analytically, the power given to the Farm Credit Administration by § 781 Fourth (b) is a licensing power, not a rulemaking, an adjudicating, or an investigating power. The regulati

The grantor of a license.

Lat. [from licere, to be lawful.] License; liberty; permission. LICENTIA CONCORDANDl (Lat. leave to agree). One of the formal steps in the levying a fine. When an action is brought

Leave to agree. See Finis est , etc.

Imparlance.

In old English practice. License to arise; permission given by the court to a tenant in a real action, who had cast an essoin de malo lecti, to arise out of his bad, which he could

In old English law. Liberty of rising; a liberty or space of time given by the court to a tenant, who is essoined, de malo lecti, in a real action, to arise out of his bed. Also, t

One who has license to practice any art or faculty.

A writ or warrant directed to keeper of port of Dover, or other seaport, commanding him to let the person who has this license of the king pass over sea. Reg. Orig. 93,

The doing what one pleases, without regard to the rights of others. It differs from liberty in this, that the latter is restrained by natural or positive law, and consists in doing

The indulgence of the arbitrary will of the individual, without regard to ethics or law, or respect for the rights of others. In this it differs from “liberty;” for the latter term

or LICERI (Lat.) In Roman law. To offer a price for a thing; to bid for it. LICET (Lat.) It is lawful; not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, q

Lat. In Roman law. To offer a price for a thing; to bid for it

Although.

I Although. Licet dispositio de interesse futnro sit inutilis, tanien potest fieri declaratio prsecedens quae sortiatur eflfectnm, intervenieiite novo actu: although a grant of a f

Although he took, he did not carry away.

Although the grant of a future interest be inoperative, yet a declaration precedent may be made, which may take effect provided a new act intervene. Bac. Max. pp. 60, 61, reg. 14;

Although the disposition of a future interest is ineffectual, yet a declaration precedent can be made which will take effect upon the intervention of a new act.

Although often demanded.

Although (more) ofter demanded.

(Although often requested.) In pleading. A phrase used in the old Latin forms of declarations, and literally translated in the modern precedents. Yel. 66; 2 Chit. PI. 90; 1 Chit. P

FORMULA nisi Juris obstet. Lawful acts may well be fused into one, unless some form of law forbid; e. g., two having a right to convey, each a moiety, may unite and convey the whol

Lawful acts [done by several authorities] are well mingled, [i. e., become united or consolidated into one good act,] unless some form of law forbid. Ban. Max. p. 94, reg. 24.

Things which are allowed may well be mingled, unless a form of law forbid.

In Spanish law. The sale made at public auction by coproprietors, or coheirs, of their joint property which is not susceptible of being advantageously divided in kind. LICITARE (La

To bid; to outbid at an auction.

In civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which coheirs or other coproprietors of a thing in common and undivide

In Roman law. A bidder at a sale.

State v. Miller, 60 Vt. 90, 12 Atl. 526. —Illicit connection. Unlawful sexual intercourse. State v. King, 9 S. D. 628, 70 N. W. 1046. —Illicit cohabitation. The living together as

Lawful; permitted by law. Licita bene miscentur, formula nisi juris obstet: lawful acts [done by several authorities] are well mingled [i. e. become united or consolidated into one

An ancient formality by which bargains were completed.

In English law. A deputy-governor, acting as the chief civil officer of one of several colonies under a governor general. Webster. In American law. An officer of a slate, sometimes

The term "LiDAR" means light detection and ranging.

See "Lynch Law." LIEGE (from liga, a bond, or litis, a man wholly at command of his lord). In feudal law. Bound by a feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who o

To be appropriate as a remedy. See Le action bien gist .

Inold English law. A free and j Jawfulman. A term applied to a juror, from the earliest period.

The term “lie detector” includes a polygraph, deceptograph, voice stress analyzer, psychological stress evaluator, or any other similar device (whether mechanical or electrical) th

An old form of "lieutenant," and still retained as the vulgar pronunciation of the word.

The state of being bound in fealty.

Homage based on allegiance, as opposed to that which implied merely an acknowledgment of tenure. The former was due to the sovereign alone, while the latter was rendered to any sup

A sovereign; a superior lord. LIEGE POUSTIE (legitima potestas). In Scotch law. That state of health which gives a person full power to dispose of, mortis causa, or otherwise, his

He that oweth allegience. Cowell.

In Scotch law. That state of health which gives a person full power to dispose of, mortis causd or otherwise, his heritable property. Bell. A deed executed at the time of such a st

The condition of health prerequisite to freedom of alienation of one’s property.

or LEGER. A resident ambassador.

A resident ambassador.

or LIEGE PEOPLE. Subjects.