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	LABEL . A narrow slip of paper or parchment, affixed to a deed or writing hanging at or out of the same. This name i
	LABOR . Continued operation; work. 2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership, and valued
	LACHES. This word, derived from the French lecher, is nearly synonymous with negligence. 2. In general, when a party h
	LADY'S FRIEND . The name of a functioner in the British house of commons. When the husband sues for a divorce, or asks the p
	LAGAN. Goods tied to a buoy and cast into the sea are so called. The same as Ligan. (q.v.)
	LAIRESITE. The name of a fine imposed upon those who committed adultery or fornication. Tech. Dict. h. t.
	LAITY. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. In the United States the division of the people into clerg
	LAMB. A ram, sheep or ewe, under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216; S. C. 19 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 351.
	LAND MARK . A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For removing a land m
	LAND TENANT. He who actually possesses the land. He is technically called the terre-tenant. (q. v.)
	LAND. This term comprehends any found, soil or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furze
	LANDLORD. He who rents or leases real estate to another. 2. He is bound to perform certain duties and is entitled to cer
	LANGUAGE. The faculty which men possess of communicating their perceptions and ideas to one another by means of articula
	LANGUIDUS, practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff, when a defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process is
	LAPSE , eccl. law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right or power to present or collate to a vacant benefice, from
	LAPSED LEGACY . One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place for various reasons. See Legacy, Lapsed. 2. A d
	LARCENY, crim. law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away, by one person, of the mere personal goods, of
	LARGE . Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty.
	LAS PARTIDAS. The name of a code of Spanish law; sometimes called las siete partidas, or the seven parts, from the number of
	LASCIVIOUS CARRIAGE , law of Connecticut. An offence, ill defined, created by statute, which enacts that every person who shall be
	LAST RESORT. A court of last resort, is one which decides, definitely, without appeal or writ of error, or any other examin
	LAST SICKNESS. That of which a person died. 2. The expenses of this sickness are generally entitled to a preference, in payme
	LATENT, construction. That which is concealed; or which does not appear; for example, if a testator bequeaths to his c
	LATITAT , Eng. law. He lies hid. The name of a writ calling a defendant to answer to a personal action in the king's b
	LAUNCHES. Small vessels employed to carry the cargo of a large one to and from the shore; lighters. (q. v.) 2. The goods
	LAW OF NATIONS. The science which teaches the rights subsisting between nations or states, and the obligations correspondent t
	LAW OF NATURE. The law of nature is that which God, the sovereign of the universe, has prescribed to all men, not by any form
	LAW, ARBITRARY . An arbitrary law is one made by the legislator simply because he wills it, and is not founded in the nature
	LAW, CANON. The canon law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pre
	LAW, CIVIL . The term civil law is generally applied by way of eminence to the civil or municipal law of the Roman empire
	LAW, COMMON. The common law is that which derives its force and authority from the universal consent and immemorial practic
	LAW, CRIMINAL . By criminal law is understood that system of laws which provides for the mode of trial of persons charged wi
	LAW, FOREIGN. By foreign laws are understood the laws of a foreign country. The states of the American Union are for some pu
	LAW, INTERNATIONAL. The law of nature applied to the affairs of nations, commonly called the law of nations, jus gentium; is also
	LAW, MARTIAL Martial law is a code established for the government of the army and navy of the United States. 2. Its princip
	LAW, MERCHANT. A system of customs acknowledged and taken notice of by all commercial nations; and those customs constitute a
	LAW, MUNICIPAL . Municipal law is defined by Mr. Justice Blackstone to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme
	LAW, PENAL. One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment.
	LAW, POSITIVE. Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be considered in a threefold point of view. 1. The uni
	LAW, PRIVATE. An act of the legislature which relates to some private matters, which do not concern the public at large.
	LAW, PROSPECTIVE. One which provides for, and regulates the future acts of men, and does not interfere in any way with what has
	LAW, PUBLIC . A public law is one in which all persons have an interest.
	LAW, RETROSPECTIVE. A retrospective law is one that is to take effect, in point of time, before it was passed. 2. Whenever a law o
	LAW, STATUTE. The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed by the constitution;
	LAW, UNWRITTEN, or lex non scripta. All the laws which do not come under the definition of written law; it is composed, princi
	LAW, WRITTEN, or lex scripta. This consists of the constitution of the United States the constitutions of the several states
	LAW. In its most general and comprehensive sense, law signifies a rule of action; and this term is applied indiscri
	LAWFUL. That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, leg
	LAWLESS. Without law; without lawful control.
	LAWS EX POST FACTO. Those which are made to punish actions committed before the existence of such laws, and which had not been dec
	LAWS OF OLERON, maritime law. A code of sea laws of deserved celebrity. It was originally promulgated by Eleonor, duchess of G
	LAWS OF THE HANSE TOWNS. A code of maritime laws known as the laws of the Hanse towns, or the ordinances of the Hanseatic towns, was fi
	LAWS OF THE TWELVE TABLES. Laws of ancient Rome composed in part from those of Solon, and other Greek legislators, and in part from the u
	LAWS OF WISBUY , maritime law. A code of sea laws established by "the merchants and masters of the magnificent city of Wisbuy
	LAWS, RHODIAN , maritime. law. A code of laws adopted by the people of Rhodes, who had, by their commerce and naval victorie
	LAWYER . A counsellor; one learned in the law. Vide dttorney.
	LEGACY . A bequest or gift of goods or chattels by testament. 2 Bl. Com. 512; Bac. Abr. Legacies, A. See Merlin, R?pe
	LEGACY, ACCUMULATIVE. An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of th
	LEGACY, ADDITIONAL . An additional legacy is one which is given by a codicil, besides one before given by the will; or it is an i
	LEGACY, ALTERNATIVE. One where the testator gives one of two things to the legatee without designating which of them; as, one of my
	LEGACY, CONDITIONAL. A bequest which is to take effect upon the happening or, not happening of a certain event. Lownd. Leg. 166; Ro
	LEGACY, DEMONSTRATIVE. A demonstrative legacy is a bequest of a certain sum of money; intended for the legatee at all events, with a
	LEGACY, INDEFINITE. A bequest of things which are not enumerated or ascertained as to numbers or quantities; as, a bequest by a te
	LEGACY, LAPSED. A legacy is said to be lapsed or extinguished, when the legatee dies before the testator, or before the condit
	LEGACY, M0DAL . A modal legacy is a bequest accompanied with directions as to the mode in which it should be applied for the
	LEGACY, PECUNIARY, A pecuniary legacy is one of money; pecuniary legacies are most usually general legacies, but there may be a s
	LEGACY, RESIDUARY. That which is of the remainder of an estate after the payment of all the debts and other legacies. Madd. Ch. P
	LEGAL . That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the truste
	LEGAL ESTATE . One, the right to which may be enforced in a court of law. It is distinguished from an equitable estate, the
	LEGALIS HOMO . A person who stands rectus in curia, who possesses all his civil rights. A lawful man. One who stands rectus
	LEGALIZATION. The act of making lawful. 2. By legalization, is also understood the act by which a judge or competent officer
	LEGANTINE CONSTITUTIONS . The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods under Pope Gregory IX., and Pope Cleme
	LEGATARY. One to whom anything is bequeathed; a legatee. This word is sometimes though seldom used to designate a legate
	LEGATEE. A legatee is a person to whom a legacy is given by a last will and testament. 2. It is proposed to consider, 1
	LEGATES. Legates are extraordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to catholic countries to represent him, and to exercise
	LEGATION . An embassy; a mission. 2. All persons attached to a foreign legation, lawfully acknowledged by the governmen
	LEGATORY, dead man's part or share. (q. v.) The third part of a freeman's personal estate, which by the custom of London
	LEGISLATIVE POWER . The authority under the constitution to make laws and to alter or repeal them.
	LEGISLATOR. One who makes laws. 2. In order to make good laws, it is necessary to understand those which are in force; the
	LEGISLATURE, government. That body of men in the state which has the power of making laws. 2. By the Constitution of the Un
	LEGITIMACY . The state of being born in wedlock; that is, in a lawful manner. 2. Marriage is considered by all civilized
	LEGITIMATE . That which is according to law; as, legitimate children, are lawful children, born in wedlock, in contradist
	LEGITIMATION . The act of giving the character of legitimate cbildren to those who were not so born. 2. In Louisiana, the C
	LEGITIME, civil law. That portion of a parent's estate of which he cannot disinherit his children, without a legal cause
	LENDER, contracts. He from whom a thing is borrowed. 2. The contract of loan confers rights, and imposes duties on th
	LESION, contracts. In the civil law this term is used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of
	LESSEE. He to whom a lease is made. The subject will be considered by taking a view, 1. Of his rights. 2. Of his dutie
	LESSOR. contr. He who grants a lease. Civ. Code of L. art. 2647.
	LESTAGE, Eng: law. Duties paid for unlading goods in port. Harg. L. Tr. 75.
	LET. Hinderance, obstacle, obstruction; as, without let, molestation or hinderance.
	LETTER missive, Engl. law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition i
	LETTER BOOK, commerce. A book containing the copies of letters written by a merchant or trader to his correspondents. 2. Af
	LETTER CARRIER. A person employed to carry letters from the post office to the persons to whom they are addressed. 2. The act
	LETTER OF ADVICE . comm. law. A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written;
	LETTER OF ATTORNEY , practice. A written instrument under seal, by which one or more persons, called the constituents, authorize
	LETTER OF CREDENCE, international law. A written instrument addressed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a state, to the sove
	LETTER OF CREDIT , contracts. An open or sealed letter, from a merchant in one place, directed to another, in another place or
	LETTER OF MARQUE AND REPRRISAL, War. A commission granted by the government to a private individual, to take the property of a foreign state,
	LETTER of RECFALL. A written document addressed by the executive of one government to the executive of another, informing the lat
	LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION , com. law. An instrument given by one person to another, addressed to a third, in which the bearer is represe
	LETTER OF RECREDENTIALS . A document delivered to a minister, by the secretary of state of the government to which he was accredited.
	LETTER OP LICENSE, contracts. An instrument or writing made by creditors to their insolvent debtor, by which they bind themselves
	LETTER, civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates
	LETTER, com. law, Crim. law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, usually on paper, which is folded up and seale
	LETTER, contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being t
	LETTERS AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DE FUNCTI , practice. In default of the representatives and creditors to administer to the estate of an intestate, the o
	LETTERS CLOSE, Engl. law. Close letters are grants, of the king, and being of private concern, they are thus distinguished fr
	LETTERS OF REQUEST , Eng. eccl. law, An instrument by which a judge of an inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in
	LETTERS PATENT. The name of an instrument granted by the government to convey a right to the patentee; as, a patent for a trac
	LETTERS ROGATORY. A letter rogatory is an instrument sent in the name and by the authority of a judge or court to another, reque
	LETTERS TESTAMENTARY, AND OF ADMINISTRATION . It is proposed to consider, 1. Their different kinds. 2. Their effect. 2. - ?1. Their different kinds. 1. Le
	LEVANT ET COUCHANT. This French phrase, which ought perhaps more properly to be couchant et levant, signifies literally rising and
	LEVARI FACIAS, Eng. law. A writ of execution against the goods and chattels of a clerk. Also the writ of execvtion on a judgm
	LEVITICAL DEGREES. Those degrees of 'kindred set forth' in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus, within which persons are prohibit
	LEVY, practice. A seizure (q. v.) the raising of the money for which an execution has been issued. 2. ln order to ma
	LEX FALCIDIA, civ. law. The name of a law which permitted a testator to dispose of three-fourtbs of his property, but he cou
	LEX FORI, practice. The law of the court or forum. 2. The forms of remedies, the modes of proceeding, and the execution
	LEX LOCI CONTRACTUS, contracts. The law of the place where an agreement is made. 2. Generally, the validity of a contract is to be
	LEX LONGOBARDORUM. The name of an ancient code in force among the Lombards. It contains many evident traces of feudal policy. It
	LEX MERCATORIA. That system of laws which is adopted by all commercial nations, and which, therefore, constitutes a part of th
	LEX TALIONIS. The law of retaliation an example of which is given in the law of Moses, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a toot
	LEX TERAE. The law of the land. The phrase is used to distinguisb this from the civil or Roman law. 2. By lex terrae, as
	LEX. The law. A law for the government of mankind in society. Among the ancient Romans, this word was frequently us
	LEY-GAGER. Wager of Law. (q. v.)
	LEY. This word is old French, a corruption of loi, and signifies law; for example, Termes de la Ley, Terms of the L
	LIABILITY. Responsibility; the state of one who is bound in law and justice to do sometbing which may be enforced by acti
	LIBEL OF ACCUSATION. A term used in Scotland to designate the instrument which contains the charge against a person accused of a cr
	LIBEL, libellus, criminal law. A malicious defamation expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or picture
	LIBEL, practice. A libel has been defined to be "the plaintiff's petition or allegation, made and exhibited in a judi
	LIBELLANT. The party who fires a libel in a chancery or admiralty case, correspondes to the plaintiff in actions in the c
	LIBELLEE. A party against whom a libel has been filed in chancery proceedings, or in admiralty, corresponding to the def
	LIBER ASSISARUM. The book of assizes, or pleas of the crown; being the fifth part of the Year Books. (q. v.)
	LIBER FEUD RUM. A code of the feudal law, which was compiled by direction of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and published i
	LIBER HOMO. A freeman lawfully competent to act as a juror. Raym. 417; Keb. 563.
	LIBER. A book; a principal subdivision of a literary work: thus, the Pandects, or Digest of the Civil Law, is divided
	LIBERATE, English practice. A writ which issues on lands, tenements, and chattels, being returned under an extent on a s
	LIBERATION, civil law. This term is synonymous with payment. Dig. 50, 16, 47. It is the extinguishment of a contract by wh
	LIBERTI, LIBERTINI. These two words were, at different times, made to express among the Romans, the condition of those who, having
	LIBERTY OF SPEECH. The right given by the constitution and the laws to public support in speaking facts or opinions. 2. In a repu
	LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. The right to print and publish the truth, from good motives, and for justifiable ends. 3 Johns. Cas. 394. 2. T
	LIBERTY. Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from t
	LIBERUM TENEMENTUM, estate. The same as, freehold, (q. v.) or frank tenement. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1690.
	LIBERUM TENEMENTUM, pleading. The name of a plea in an action of trespass, by which the defendant claims the locus in quo to be hi
	LICENSE , contracts. A right given by some competent authority to do an act, which without such authority would be ill
	LICENSE , International law. An authority given by one of two belligerent parties, to the citizens or subjects of the
	LICENSEE. One to whom a license has been given. 1 M. Q. & S. 699 n.
	LICENTIA CONCORDANDI, estates, conveyancing, practice. When an action is brought for the purpose of levying a fine, the defendant, k
	LICENTIA LOQUENDI. Imparlance. (q. v.)
	LICENTIOUSNESS. The doing what one pleases without regard to the rights of others; it differs from liberty in this, that the l
	LICET SAEPIUS REQUISITUS, pleading. practice. Although often requested. It is usually alleged in the declaration that the defendant, lic
	LICITATION. A sale at auction; a sale to the highest bidder.
	LIDFORD LAW. Vide Lynch Law.
	LIEGE POUSTIE, Scotch law. The condition or state of a person who is in his ordinary health and capacity, and not a minor, no
	LIEGE, from the Latin, ligare, to bind. The bond subsisting between the subject and chief, or lord and vassal, bindin
	LIEN, contracts. In its most extensive signification, this term includes every case in which real or personal proper
	LIEU, place. Iu lieu of, instead, in the place of.
	LIEUTENANT. This word has now a narrower meaning than it formerly had; its true meaning is a deputy, a substitute, from th
	LIFE ANNUITY. An annual income to be paid during the continuance of a particular life.
	LIFE-ASSURANCE. An insurance of a life, upon the payment of a premium; this may be for the whole life, or for a limited time.
	LIFE-ESTATE . Vide Estate for life, and 3 Saund. 338, h. note; 2 Kent Com. 285; 4 Kent, Com. 23.; 1 Hov. Suppl. to Ves. jr
	LIFE-RENT , Scotch law. A right to use and enjoy a thing during life, the substance of it being preserved. A life-rent c
	LIFE. The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat. 2. The state of animated beings, while they
	LIGAN or LAGAN. Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. Whe
	LIGEANCE. The true and faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government. It signifies al
	LIGHTERMAN. The owner or manager of a lighter. A lighterman is considered as a common Carrier. See Lighters.
	LIGHTERS, commerce. Small vessels employed in loading and unloading larger vessels. 2. The owners of lighters are liable
	LIGHTS. Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of. 6 Moore, C. B.
	LIMBS. Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the unlawful deprivation of which by another
	LIMITATION , estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot en
	LIMITATION, remedies. A bar to the alleged right of a plaintiff to recover in an action, caused by the lapse of a certain
	LINE , estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary. 2. When a line is mentioned in a deed as
	LINE, measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch.
	LINEAGE. Properly speaking lineage is the relationship of persons in a direct line; as the grandfather, the father, the
	LINEAL . That which comes in a line. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons, one of whom is desc
	LINEAL WARRANTY, old English law. A warranty by the heir, when he derived title to the land warranted, either from or through,
	LIQUIDATED . That which is made clear, certain, and manifest; as, liquidated damages, ascertained damages liquidated debt
	LIQUIDATED DAMAGES. By this term is understood the fixed amount which a party to an agreement promises to pay to the other, in cas
	LIRA. The name of a foreign coin. In all computations at the custom house, the lira of Sardinia shall be estimated a
	LIS MOTA. The cause of the suit or action. By this term is understood the commencement of the controversy, and the begin
	LIS PENDENS. The pendancy of a suit; the time between which it is instituted and finally decided. 2. It has been decided t
	LIS. A suit; an action; a controversy in court; a dispute.
	LIST. A table of cases arranged for trial or argument; as, the trial list, the argument list. See 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3
	LISTERS . This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Ve
	LITERAL CONTRACT, civil law. A contract, the whole of the evidence of which is reduced to writing. This contract is perfected by
	LITERARY PROPERTY. This name has been given to the right which authors have in their works. This is secured to them by copyright.
	LITIGANT . One engaged in a suit; one fond of litigation.
	LITIGATION. A contest authorized by law, in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right. 2. In order to preve
	LITIGI0SITY, Scottish law. The pendency of a suit; it is an implied prohibition of alienation to the disappointment of an a
	LITIGIOUS. That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense
	LITIS CONTESTATIO, civil law. "Contestari." It is when each party to a suit (uterque reus) says "Teste estote." It was therefore,
	LITISPENDENCE. The part of an action being depending and undetermined; the time during which an action is pending. See Lis pe
	LITRE. A French measure of capacity. It is of the size of a decimetre, or one-tenth part of a cubic metre. It is equa
	LIVERY OF SEISIN, estates. A delivery of possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, unto one entitled to the same. This
	LIVERY, Engl. law. 1. The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight's
	LIVRE TOURNOIS, com. law. A coin used in France before the revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, &
	LlCENSE, pleading. The name of a plea of justification to an action of trespass. A license must be specially pleaded, a
	lMMATERIAL ISSUE . One taken on a point not proper to decide the action; for example, if in an action of debt on bond, conditio
	LOADMANAGE , maritime law, contracts. The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or sma
	LOAN FOR CONSUMPTION, or, MUTUTUM. (q. v.) A contract by which the owner of a personal chattel, called the lender, delivers it to another, known
	LOAN FOR USE, or COMMODATUM, contracts. A bailment, or loan of an article for a certain time, to be used by the borrower, without paying fo
	LOAN, contracts. The act by which a person lets another have a thing to be used by him gratuitously, and which is to
	LOCAL ACTION, practice, pleadings. An action is local when the venue must be laid in the county where the cause of action ar
	LOCAL. Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or cour
	LOCALITY, Scotch law. This name is given to a life rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of l
	LOCATIO . Hire; a letting out.
	LOCATIO CONDUCTIO, Civil law. Location conduction is a consensual contract, by which a person becomes bound to deliver to another
	LOCATIO MERCIUM VEHENDARUM, contracts. A term used in the civil law to signify the carriage of goods for hire. 2. In respect to contracts
	LOCATIO OPERIS FACIENDI, contracts. A term used in the civil law. There are two kinds, first, the location operis faciendi, strictly so
	LOCATIO OPERIS, contracts. A term used in the civil law, to signify the hiring of labor and services. It is a contract by whic
	LOCATIO REI , contracts. A term used in the civil law, which signifies the hiring of a thing. It is a contract by which on
	LOCATION, contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given fo
	LOCATION, estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the
	LOCATOR, civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the
	LOCK-UP HOUSE. A place used, temporarily as a prison.
	LOCO PARENTIS. In the place of a parent. 2. It is frequently important in cases of devises and bequests, to ascertain whether
	LOCUM TENENS. He who holds the place of another, a deputy; as A B, locum tenens of C D, mayor of the city of Philadelphia.
	LOCUS CONTRACTUS. The place of the contract. In general, the law of the place where the contract is made, governs in everything
	LOCUS DELICTI. The place where the tort, offence, or injury bas been committed.
	LOCUS IN QUO. The place in which. In pleadings it is the place where any- thing is alleged to have been done. 1 Salk. 94.
	LOCUS POENITENTIAE. contracts, crim. law. Literally this signifies a place of repentance; in law, it is the opportunity of withdra
	LOCUS REI SITAE. The place where a thing is situated. In proceedings in rem, in real actions in the civil law, or: those which
	LOCUS SIGILLI. The place of the seal. 2. In many of the states, instead of sealing deeds, writs, and other papers or document
	LOCUS. The place where a thing is done.
	LODGER. One who has a right to inhabit another man's house. He has not the same right as a tenant; and is not entitled
	LOG BOOK. A ship's journal. It contains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence
	LOQUELA , practice. An imparlance. Loquela sine die, a respite in law to an indefinite time. Formerly by loquela was m
	LORD'S DAY. The same as Sunday. (q. v.) Dies Dominicus non est juridicus. Co. Litt. 135; Noy's Max. 2.
	LORD. In England, this is a title of honor. Fortunately in the U. S. no such titles are allowed.
	LOSS IN INSURANCE, contracts. A loss is the injury or damage sustained by the insured in consequence of the happening of one or m
	LOSS, contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.
	LOST PAPERS. When a paper containing an agreement between parties, a will, and the like, has been so mislaid, that after a
	LOST. What was once possessed and cannot now be found. 2. When a bond or other deed was lost, formerly the obligee o
	LOT OF GROUND. A small piece of land in a town or city usually employed for building, a yard, a garden or such other urban us
	LOT. Anything on which depends the accidental determination of a right by which we acquire or lose something; or it
	LOTTERY . A scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance. 2. In most, if not all of the United States, lotteries no
	LOUISIANA. The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union by t
	LOW WATER MARK. That part of the shore of the sea to which the waters re- cede when the tide is the lowest. Vide High Water Ma
	LOYAL . Legal; according to law; as, loyal matrimony, a lawful marriage; at- tached to the existing law.
	LOYALTY. That which adheres to the law, that which sustains an existing government. See Penal Laws of China, 3.
	LTTIGIOUS RIGHTS, French law. Those which are or may be contested either in whole or in part, whether an action has been commenc
	LUCID INTERVAL , med. jur. That space of time between two fits of insanity, during which a person non compos mentis is comple
	LUCRE. Gain, profit. Cl. des Lois Rom. h. t.
	LUCRI CAUSA. This is a Latin expression, which signifies that the thing to which it applies is done for the sake of gain. 2
	LUGGAGE. Such things as are carried by a traveller, generally for his personal accommodation; baggage. In England this
	LUNACY, med. jur. A disease of the mind, which is differently defined as it applies to a class of disorders, or only t
	LUNAR. That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month. See Month.
	LUNATIC, persons. One who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of
	LYING IN GRANT . Incorporeal rights and things which cannot be transferred by livery of possession, but which exist only in i
	LYING IN WAIT. Being in ambush for the purpose of murdering another. 2. Lying in wait is evidence of deliberation and intenti
	LYNCH-LAW. A common phrase used to express the vengeance of a mob, inflicting an injury, and committing an outrage upon a

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