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  • LICENSEE
    A person to whom a license has been granted. In patent law. One who has had transferred to him, either in writing or orally, a less or different interest than either the Interest in the whole patent, or an undivided part of such whole interest, or an exclusive sectional Interest More...
  • LICENSING ACTS
    This expression la applied by Hallam (Const Hist c. 13) to acts of parliament for the restraint of printing, except by license. It may also be applied to any act of parliament passed for the purpose of requiring a license for doing any act whatever. But, generally, when we speak More...
  • LICENSOR
    The person who gives or grants a license.
  • LICENTIA
    Lat. License; leave; permission. -Licentia ooneordandL In old practice and conveyancing. License or leave to agree; one of the proceedings on levying a fine of lands. 2 Bl. Comm. 350.-Licentia loqnendt In old practice. Leave to speak, i. e., with the plaintiff;) an imparlance; or rather leave to imparl. 3 More...
  • LICENTIATE
    One who has license to practice any art or faculty.
  • LICENTIOUSNESS
    The indulgence of the arbitrary will of the individual, without regard to ethics or law, or respect for the rights of others. In this it differs from "liberty for the latter term may properly be used only of the exercise of the will In its moral freedom, with justice to More...
  • LICERE
    Lat. To be lawful; to be allowed or permitted by law. Calvin.
  • LICERE, LICERI
    Lat. In Roman law. To offer a price for a thing; to hid for it.
  • LICET
    Lat. From the verb "Keen," fa. t7.) Although; notwithstanding. Importing, in this sense, a direct affirmation. Also, it is allowed, it is permissible. -Licet ssepins reqnisitns. (Although often requested.) In pleading. A phrase used in the old Latin forms of declarations, and literally translated in the modern precedents. Yel. 66; More...
  • LICITACION
    In Spanish law. The offering for sale at public auction of an estate or property held by co-heirs or Joint proprie-' tors, which cannot be divided up without detriment to the whole.
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