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  • LANDLORD
    He of whom lands or ten^ ements are holden. He who, being the own" er of an estate in land, has leased the same for a term of years, on a rent reserved, to another person, called the "tenant" Jackson v. Harsen, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 326, 17 Am. Dec. More...
  • LANDMARK
    A monument or erection set up on the boundary line of two adjoining-estates, to fix such boundary. The removing of a landmark is a wrong for which an action lies.
  • LANDS
    This term, the plural of "land," is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification than either "tenements" or "hereditaments." But in some of; the states it has been provided by statute that it shall include both those terms. -Lands clauses consolidation acts. The name given More...
  • LANDSLAGH
    In Swedish law. A body of common law, compiled about the thirteenth century, out of the particular customs of every province; being analogous to the common laic of England. 1 Bl. Comm. 66.
  • LANDWARD
    In Scotch law. Rural. 7 Bell, App. Cas. 2.
  • LANGEMAN
    A lord of a manor. 1 lust 5.
  • LANGEOLUM
    An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Mon. Angl. 410.
  • LANGUAGE
    Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of Ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical import of a document or instrument as distinguished from its spirit; as "the language of the statute." See Behling v. State, 110 Ga. 754, 36 S. E. 85; More...
  • LANGUIDUS
    (Lat. Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process, is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or. health. 3 Chit Pr. 249, 358.
  • LANIS DE CRESCENTIA WALLIAE TRADUCENDIS ABSQUE CUSTUMA
    etc. An ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in Wales. Reg. Orig. 279.
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