maritime law, contracts. The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing th...
contracts. The act by which a person lets another have a thing to be used by him gratuitously, and which is to be returned, either in specie or in kin...
(q. v.) A contract by which the owner of a personal chattel, called the lender, delivers it to another, known as the borrower, by which it is agreed t...
the thing borrowed, such as corn, wine, and money, is to be returned in kind and quantity. See Mutuum. It follows, that a loan for use can never be of...
Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or courts whose jurisdiction is limited to a pa...
practice, pleadings. An action is local when the venue must be laid in the county where the cause of action arose. 1 Chit. PI . 271; 21 Vin. Ab. 79; 3...
Scotch law. This name is given to a life rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life rent of ter...
Hire; a letting out....
Civil law. Location conduction is a consensual contract, by which a person becomes bound to deliver to another the use of a thing for a certain time, ...
contracts. A term used in the civil law to signify the carriage of goods for hire.2. In respect to contracts of this sort entered into by private pers...
contracts. A term used in the civil law, to signify the hiring of labor and services. It is a contract by which one of the parties gives a certain wor...
contracts. A term used in the civil law. There are two kinds, first, the location operis faciendi, strictly so called, or the hire of labor and servic...
contracts. A term used in the civil law, which signifies the hiring of a thing. It is a contract by which one of the parties obligates himself to, giv...
contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertained hire. 1 Bell s Com. B. ...
estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in...
civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it. 2d. To ...
A place used, temporarily as a prison....
In the place of a parent.2. It is frequently important in cases of devises and bequests, to ascertain whether the testator did or did not stand toward...
He who holds the place of another, a deputy; as A B, locum tenens of C D, mayor of the city of Philadelphia....
The place where a thing is done....
The place of the contract. In general, the law of the place where the contract is made, governs in everything which relates to the mode of construing ...
The place where the tort, offence, or injury bas been committed....
contracts, crim. law. Literally this signifies a place of repentance; in law, it is the opportunity of withdrawing from a projected contract, before t...
ce in which. In pleadings it is the place where any- thing is alleged to have been done. 1 Salk. 94....
The place where a thing is situated. In proceedings in rem, in real actions in the civil law, or: those which have for their object the recovery of a ...
The place of the seal. 2. In many of the states, instead of sealing deeds, writs, and other papers or documents requiring it, a scroll is made in whic...
One who has a right to inhabit another man s house. He has not the same right as a tenant; and is not entitled to the same notice to quit. Woodf. L. &...
Habitation in another s house, in which the owner dwells; the oc- cupier being termed a lodger....
A ship s journal. It contains a minute account of the ship s course, with a short history of every occurrence during the vovage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 408. Wh...
practice. An imparlance. Loquela sine die, a respite in law to an indefinite time. Formerly by loquela was meant the allegations of fact mutually made...
In England, this is a title of honor. Fortunately in the U. S. no such titles are allowed....
The same as Sunday. (q. v.) Dies Dominicus non est juridicus. Co. Litt. 135; Noy s Max. 2....
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.2. In cases of partnership, the losses a...
contracts. A loss is the injury or damage sustained by the insured in consequence of the happening of one or more of the accidents or misfortunes agai...
What was once possessed and cannot now be found.2. When a bond or other deed was lost, formerly the obligee or plaintiff was compelled to go into equi...
id, that after a diligent search it cannot be found, it is said to be lost.2. When such a document has been lost, and it is required to prove its cont...
These words are sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance. They are used when the underwriter undertakes that if the ship or goods should be ...
Anything on which depends the accidental determination of a right by which we acquire or lose something; or it is that which fortuitously deter-mines ...
A small piece of land in a town or city usually employed for building, a yard, a garden or such other urban use. Lots are in-lots, or those within the...
A scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance.2. In most, if not all of the United States, lotteries not specially authorized by the legislatures ...
ually. He must be a citizen of the United States, over the age of thirty years, and have resided in the state for six years next preceding his appoint...
That part of the shore of the sea to which the waters re- cede when the tide is the lowest. Vide High Water Mark; River; Sea Shore; Dane s Ab. h. t.; ...
Legal; according to law; as, loyal matrimony, a lawful marriage; at- tached to the existing law....
That which adheres to the law, that which sustains an existing government. See Penal Laws of China, 3....
med. jur. That space of time between two fits of insanity, during which a person non compos mentis is completely restored to the perfect enjoyment of ...
Gain, profit. Cl. des Lois Rom. h. t....
This is a Latin expression, which signifies that the thing to which it applies is done for the sake of gain.2. It was supposed that when a larceny was...
Such things as are carried by a traveller, generally for his personal accommodation; baggage. In England this word is generally used in the same sense...
is not surprising that many scientific and philosophical men have vainly exhausted their observation and ingenuity to find out some special quality, s...
That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month. See Month....
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