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  • LAZARET, OR LAZARETTO
    A pest-house, or public hospital for persons affected with the more dangerous forms of contagious diseases; a quarantine station for vessels coming from countries where such diseases are prevalent.
  • LAZZI
    A Saxon term for persons of a servile condition.
  • LE CONGRES
    A species of proof on charges of lmpotency in France, coitus coram testibus. Abolished A. D. 1077. Le contrat fait la loi. The contract makes the law.
  • LE GUIDON DE LA MER
    The title of a French work on marine insurance, by an unknown author, dating back, probably, to the sixteenth century, and said to have been prepared for the merchants of Rouen. It is noteworthy as being the earliest treatise on that subject now extant. Le ley do Dlen et ley More...
  • LE ROI, OR ROY
    The old law-French words for "the king." -Le rol vent en dcliberer. The king will deliberate on it. This is the formula which the king of the French used when he intended to veto an act of the legislative assembly. 1 Toullier, no. 42.-Le roy (or la reine) le vent. More...
  • LEA, OR LEY
    A pasture. Co. Litt. 4b.
  • LEAD
    The counsel on either side of a litigated action who is charged with the principal management and direction of the party's case, as distinguished from his juniors or subordinates, is said to "lead in the cause," and is termed the "leading counsel" on that side..
  • LEADING A USE
    Where a deed was executed before the levy of a fine of land, for the purpose of specifying to whose use the fine should inure, it was said to "lead" the use. If executed after the fine, it was said to "declare" the use. 2 Bl. Comm. 363.
  • LEADING CASE
    Among the various cases that are argued and determined in the courts, some, from their important character, have demanded more than usual attention from the judges, and from this circumstance are frequently looked upon as having settled or determined the law upon all points involved In such cases, and as More...
  • LEADING COUNSEL
    That ofle of two or more counsel employed on the same side in a cause who has the principal management of the cause.
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