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  • LATCHING
    An under-ground survey.
  • LATE
    Defunct; existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 19a Formerly; recently; lately.
  • LATELY
    This word has been held to have "a very large retrospect as we say 'lately deceased' of one dead ten or twenty years." Per. Cur. 2 Show. 294.
  • LATENS
    Lat Latent; hidden; not apparent. See AMBIGUITAS.
  • LATENT
    Hidden; concealed; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY. -Latent deed. A deed kept for twenty years or more in a man's scrutoire or strong-box. Wright v. Wright, 7 N. J. Law, 177, 11 Am. Dec. 546.-Latent defect. A defect in More...
  • LATERA
    In old records. Sidesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell.
  • LATERAL RAILROAD
    A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between Its termini; it is but another name for a branch road, both being a part of the main road. Newhall v. Railroad Co., 14 111. 273.
  • LATERAL SUPPORT
    The right of lateral and subjacent support is that right which the owner of land has to have his land supported by the adjoining land or the soil beneath. Stevenson v. Wallace, 27 Grat (Va.) 77; Farrand v. Marshall, 19 Barb. (N. Y.) 880; Foley v. Wyeth, 2 Allen (Mass.) More...
  • LATERARE
    To lie sideways, in opposition to lying endways; used in descriptions of lands.
  • LATH, LATHE
    The name of an ancient civil division in England, intermediate between the county or shire and the hundred. Said to be the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was termed a "rape." 1 Bl. Comm. 116; Cowell; Spelman. -Lathreve. An officer under the Saxon government, who had More...
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