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  • LL.B., LL.M., AND LL.D.
    Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three academic degrees in law,bachelor, master, and doctor of laws.
  • LA
    Fr. The. The definite article in the feminine gender. Occurs in some legal terms and phrases; as "Termes de la Ley," terms of the law.
  • LA
    Fr. There. An adverb of time and place; whereas.
  • LA CHAMBRE DES ESTEILLES
    The star-chamber. La conscience est la pins change ante dos regies. Conscience is the most changeable of rules. Bouv. Diet. La lay favour la Tie d'un home. The law favors the life of a man. Yearb. M. 10 Hen. VI. 51. La ley favonr l'enheritanee d'un home. The law favors More...
  • LAAS
    In old records. A net, gin, or snare.
  • LABEL
    Anything appended to a larger writing, as a codicil; a narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writ, in order to hold the appending seal. In the vernacular, the word denotes a printed or written slip of paper affixed to a manufactured article, giving information as More...
  • LABINA
    In old records. Watery land.
  • LABOR
    1. Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends. It is used in this sense in several legal phrases, such as "a count for work and labor," More...
  • LABOR A JURY
    In old practice. To tamper with a jury: to endeavor to Influence them in their verdict, or their verdict generally.
  • LABORARIIS
    An ancient writ against persons who refused to serve and do labor, and who had no means of living; or against such as, having served in the winter, refused to serve in the summer. Reg. Orig. 189.
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