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  • LINEAL
    That which comes in a line; especially a direct line, as from father to son. Collateral relationship is not called "lineal," though the expression "collateral line," Is not unusual. -Lineal oonsanguinity. That kind of consanguinity which subsists between persons of whom one is descended in a direct line from the More...
  • LINK
    A unit in a connected series; anything which serves to connect or bind together the things which precede and follow it Thus, we speak of a "link in the chain of title."
  • LIQUERE
    Lat In the civil law. To be clear, evident or satisfactory* When a judex was in doubt how to decide a case, he represented to the pnetor, under oath, sibi non liquere, (that it was not clear to him,) and was thereupon discharged. Calvin.
  • LIQUET
    It is-clear or apparent; it appears. Satis liquet, it sufficiently appears. 1 Strange, 412.
  • LIQUIDATE
    To adjust or settle an indebtedness; to determine an amount to he paid; to clear up an account and ascertain the balance; to fix the amount required to satisfy a judgment Midgett v. Watson, 29 N. C. 145; Martin v. Kirk, 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 531. To clear away; to lessen; More...
  • LIQUIDATED
    Ascertained; determined; fixed; settled; made clear or manifest Cleared away; paid; discharged. -Liquidated account. An account whereof the amount is certain and fixed, either by the act and agreement of the parties or by operation of law; a sum which cannot be changed by the proof; it is so much More...
  • LIQUIDATING PARTNER
    The partner who upon the dissolution or insolvency of the firm, is appointed to settle its accounts, collect assets, adjust claims, and pay debts. Garretson v. Brown, 185 Pa. 447, 40 Atl. 300.
  • LIQUIDATION
    The act or process of settling or making clear, fixed, and determinate that which before was uncertain or unascertained. As applied to a company, (or sometimes to the affairs of an individual,) liquidation ia used in a broad sense as equivalent to "winding up;" that is, tbe comprehensive process of More...
  • LIQUIDATOR
    A person appointed to carry out the winding up of a company. -Official liquidator. In English law. A person appointed bv the judge in chancery, in whose court a joint^tock company is being wound up, to bring and defend suits and actions in the name of the company, and generally More...
  • LIQUOR
    This term, when used in statutes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or Intoxicating liquors. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 89 N. G. 576; People v. Crilley, 20 Barb. (N. Y.) 248. See INTOXICATING LIQUOR; SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR. -Liquor dealer. Dne More...
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