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 positi...
pleading. practice. Although often requested. It is usually alleged in the declaration that the defendant, licet saepius requisitus, &c., he did not p...
It is lawful; not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum; quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur....
A sale at auction; a sale to the highest bidder....
Vide Lynch Law....
from the Latin, ligare, to bind. The bond subsisting between the subject and chief, or lord and vassal, binding the one to protection and just governm...
Scotch law. The condition or state of a person who is in his ordinary health and capacity, and not a minor, nor cognosced as an idiot or madman, nor u...
iner. But when the creditor has made advances on the goods of a factor, he is generally invested with the right to sell. Holt s N P. Rep. 383; 3 Chit....
place. Iu lieu of, instead, in the place of....
This word has now a narrower meaning than it formerly had; its true meaning is a deputy, a substitute, from the French lieu, (place or post) and tenan...
The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat.2. The state of animated beings, while they possess the power of feeling and motion. ...
An annual income to be paid during the continuance of a particular life....
An insurance of a life, upon the payment of a premium; this may be for the whole life, or for a limited time. On the death of the person whose life ha...
Vide Estate for life, and 3 Saund. 338, h. note; 2 Kent Com. 285; 4 Kent, Com. 23.; 1 Hov. Suppl. to Ves. jr. 371, 381; 2 Id. 45, 249, 330, 340, 398, ...
Scotch law. A right to use and enjoy a thing during life, the substance of it being preserved. A life-rent cannot, therefore, be constituted upon thin...
Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea in storms ...
The true and faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government. It signifies also the territory of a soverqign. See All...
The owner or manager of a lighter. A lighterman is considered as a common Carrier. See Lighters....
commerce. Small vessels employed in loading and unloading larger vessels.2. The owners of lighters are liable, like other common carriers for hire; it...
Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of. 6 Moore, C. B. 47; 9 Bingh. R. 305; 1 Lev. 122; Civ. C...
Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law. 1 Bl....
estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the conti...
f, and in relation to the common ancestor, is a direct line; it becomes collateral when placed along side of another line below the common ancestor, i...
measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch....
estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.2. When a line is mentioned in a deed as ending at a particular monument, (q. v.) it...
Properly speaking lineage is the relationship of persons in a direct line; as the grandfather, the father, the son, the grandson, &c. ...
That which comes in a line. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other. Lin...
old English law. A warranty by the heir, when he derived title to the land warranted, either from or through, the ancestor who made the warranty. See ...
1 YeatesR. 571; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 14; see Poth. Ob. n. 628; Dig. 50, 17, 24; Id. 42, 1, 64; Id. 1, 45, 112; Id. 46, 5, 11; Code, 7, 47. Dom. Lois Civ....
By this term is understood the fixed amount which a party to an agreement promises to pay to the other, in case he shall not fulfil some primary or pr...
A fixed and determinate valuation of things which before were uncertain....
The name of a foreign coin. In all computations at the custom house, the lira of Sardinia shall be estimated at eighteen cents and six mills. Act of M...
A suit; an action; a controversy in court; a dispute. ...
The cause of the suit or action. By this term is understood the commencement of the controversy, and the beginning of the suit. 4 Campb. R. 417; 6 Car...
The pendancy of a suit; the time between which it is instituted and finally decided. 2. It has been decided that the mere serving of a subpoena in cha...
A table of cases arranged for trial or argument; as, the trial list, the argument list. See 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3031....
This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Verm. Rev. Stat. 538....
civil law. A contract, the whole of the evidence of which is reduced to writing. This contract is perfected by the writing, and binds the party who su...
This name has been given to the right which authors have in their works. This is secured to them by copyright. (q. v.) Vide 2 Bl. Com. 405-6; 4 Vin. A...
One engaged in a suit; one fond of litigation....
A contest authorized by law, in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right.2. In order to prevent injustice, courts of equity will restr...
Scottish law. The pendency of a suit; it is an implied prohibition of alienation to the disappointment of an action, or of diligence, the direct objec...
That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense, litigious signifies a disposition to s...
French law. Those which are or may be contested either in whole or in part, whether an action has been commenced, or when there is reason to apprehend...
civil law. "Contestari." It is when each party to a suit (uterque reus) says "Teste estote." It was therefore, so called, because persons were called ...
The part of an action being depending and undetermined; the time during which an action is pending. See Lis pendens....
A French measure of capacity. It is of the size of a decimetre, or one-tenth part of a cubic metre. It is equal to 61.028 cubic inches. Vide Measure....
n of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight s service. 2. Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, ...
estates. A delivery of possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, unto one entitled to the same. This was a ceremony used in the common law fo...
com. law. A coin used in France before the revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, &c., at eighteen and a half cents. Act of...
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