Legal Term Dictionary

The name of an Italian coin, of the value of about eighteen cents.

The name of an Italian coin, of the value of about eighteen cents. Less...

Lat. A controversy or dispute; a snit or action at law. -Lis alibi pendens. A suit pending elsewhere. The fact that proceedings are pending between a plaintiff and defendant in one court in respect to a given matter is frequently a ground for preventing the plaintiff from taking proceedings in More...

Lat. A controversy or dispute; a snit or action at law. -Lis alibi pendens. A suit pending elsewhere. The fact that proceedings are pending between a plaintiff and defendant in one court in respect to a given matter is frequently a ground for preventing the plaintiff from taking proceedings in another court against the same defendant for the same object and arising out of the same cause of action. Sweet. -Lis mota. A controversy moved or begun. By this term is meant a dispute which has arisen upon a point or question which afterwards forms the issue upon which legal proceedings are instituted. Westfelt v. Adams, 131 N. 0. 379, 42 S. E. 823. After such controversy has arisen, {post litem motam,) it is held, declarations as to pedigree, made by members of the family since deceased, are not admissible. See 4 Camp. 417; 6 Car. A P. 560.-Lis pen-dans. A suit pending; that legal process, in a suit regarding land, which amounts to legal notice to all the world that there is a dispute as to the title. In equity the filing of the bill and serving a subpoena creates a lis pendens, except when statutes require some record. Stim. Law Gloss. See Boyd v. Emmons, 103 Ky. 393, 45 S. W. 864; Tinsley v. Rice, 105 Ga. 285, 1 S. E. 174; Bowen v. Kirkland, 17 Tex. Civ. App. 346, 44 S. W. 189; Hines v. Duncan. 79 Ala. 117, 58 Am. Rep. 580. In the civil law. A suit pending. A suit was not said to be pending before that stare of it' called "litis contestation (q. v.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 219; Calvin.-Notice of lis pendent. A notice filed for the purpose of warning-all persons that the title to certain property is In litigation, and that, if they purchase the defendant's claim to the same, they are in danger of being bound by an adverse judgment See Empire Land A Canal Co. v. Bagley, 18 Colo. 388, 33 Pac 153. Less...

A docket or calendar of causes ready for trial or argument or of motions ready for hearing.

A docket or calendar of causes ready for trial or argument or of motions ready for hearing. Less...

Included in a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property.

Included in a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property. Less...

This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. St Vt 538.

This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. St Vt 538. Less...

Lat Pending the suit Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, { 23.

Lat Pending the suit Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, { 23. Less...

Lat In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another; particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued In respect to it by a third person, gives notice to his vendor and demands his aid in its defense. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, More...

Lat In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another; particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued In respect to it by a third person, gives notice to his vendor and demands his aid in its defense. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 403. Less...

Lat To make a suit his own. Where a judex, from partiality or enmity, evidently favored either of the parties, he was said litem suam facere. Calvin.

Lat To make a suit his own. Where a judex, from partiality or enmity, evidently favored either of the parties, he was said litem suam facere. Calvin. Less...

Lat A letter. The letter of a law, as distinguished from its spirit. See LiETTEB. -Liter* Plsana. The Pisan letter. A term applied to tbe old character in which the copy of the Pandects formerly kept at Pisa, in Italy, was written. Spelman.

Lat A letter. The letter of a law, as distinguished from its spirit. See LiETTEB. -Liter* Plsana. The Pisan letter. A term applied to tbe old character in which the copy of the Pandects formerly kept at Pisa, in Italy, was written. Spelman. Less...

Letters. A term applied in old English law to various instruments in writing, public and private. -Litem dimissorisB. Dimissory letters, (q. v.)-Liters* humaniores. A term including Greek, Latin, general philology, logic, moral philosophy, metaphysics; the name of the principal course of study in the University of Oxford. Wharton.-Literae mortuss. Dead More...

Letters. A term applied in old English law to various instruments in writing, public and private. -Litem dimissorisB. Dimissory letters, (q. v.)-Liters* humaniores. A term including Greek, Latin, general philology, logic, moral philosophy, metaphysics; the name of the principal course of study in the University of Oxford. Wharton.-Literae mortuss. Dead letters ; fulfilling words of a statute. Lord Bacon observes that ''there are in every statute certain words which are as veins, where the life and blood of the statute cometh, and where all doubts do arise, and the rest are literm mor-tux, fulfilling words." Bac. St. Uses, (Works, iv. 189.)-Liters* patentee. Letters patent; literally, open letters.-Litersa procurator!*. In old English law. Letters procure to ry: letters of procuration; letters of attorney. Bract fols. 40, 43.-Literse reoognitionis. In maritime law. A bill of lading. Jac. Sea Laws, 172.-Litersa sisdllata). In old English law. Sealed letters. The return of a sheriff was so called. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 64, $ 19. Litersa patentee regis non emnt Taenia. 1 Bulst 6. The king's letters patent shall not be void. Literse scripts) manent. Written words last. Less...