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  • LICITARE
    Lat. In Roman law. To offer a price at a sale; to bid; to bid often; * to make several bids, one above another. Calvin.
  • LICITATION
    In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a thing in common and undivided between them put it to bid between them, to be ad-Judged and to More...
  • LICITATOR
    In Roman law. A bidder at a sale.
  • LICKING OF THUMBS
    An ancient formality by which bargains were completed.
  • LIDFORD LAW
    A sort of lynch law, whereby a person was flrst punished and then tried. Wharton.
  • LIE
    To subsist; to exist; to be sustainable; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase "an action will not lie" means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no ground upon which to found the action. -Lie in franchise. Property is said 'to "lie in franchise" when More...
  • LIE TO
    To adjoin. A cottage must have had four acres of land laid to it See 2 Show. 279.
  • LIEFTENANT
    An old form of "lieutenant," and still retained as the vulgar pronunciation of the word.
  • LIEGE
    In feudal law. Bound by a feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount who owned no superior. In old records. Full; absolute; perfect; pure. Liege widowhood was pure widow-. hood. Cowell. -Liege homage. Homage which, when performed by one sovereign prince to another, included fealty and services, as More...
  • LIEGEMAN
    He that oweth allegiance. Cowell.
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