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  • LEIDGRAVE
    An officer under the Saxon government who had jurisdiction over a lath. Enc. Lond. See LATH.
  • LEIPA
    In old English law. A fugitive or runaway.
  • LEND
    To part with a thing of value to another for a time fixed or indefinite, yet to have some time In ending, to be used or enjoyed by that other, the thing itself or the equivalent of it to be given back at the time fixed, or when lawfully asked More...
  • LENDER
    He from whom a thing is borrowed. The bailor of an article loaned.
  • LENT
    In ecclesiastical law. The quadragesimal fast; a time of abstinence; the time from Ash-Wednesday to Easter.
  • LEOD
    People; a people; a nation. Spelman.
  • LEODES
    In old European law. A vassal, or liege man; service; a tcere or were-gild Spelman.
  • LEOHT-GESCEOT
    A tax for supplying the church with lights. Anc. Inst. JEng.
  • LEONINA SOCIETAS
    Lat. An attempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits. This was a void partnership in Roman law; and, apparently, it would also be void as a partnership in English law, as being Inherently inconsistent with the notion of More...
  • LEP AND LACE
    A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (except it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to the lord. Blount
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