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  • LAUDEMIUM
    Lat. In the ciil law. a sum paid by a new emphyteuta (q. v.) who acquires the emphyteusis, not as heir, but as a singular successor, whether by gift, devise, exchange, or sale. It was a sum equal to the fiftieth part of the purchase money, paid to the dominus More...
  • LAUDUM
    Lat. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law. Sentence or judgment; dome or doom. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8.
  • LAUGHE
    Frank-pledge. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 17.
  • LAUNCEGAY
    A kind of offensive weapon, now disused, and prohibited by 7 Rich. II. c. 13.
  • LAUNCH
    1. The act of launching a vessel; the movement of a vessel from the land into the water, especially the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built Homer v. The Lady of the Ocean, 70 Me. 352. 2. A boat of the largest size belonging to More...
  • LAUREATE
    In English law. An officer of the household of the sovereign, whose business formerly consisted only in composing an ode annually, on the sovereign's birthday, and on the new year; sometimes also, though rarely, pn occasion of any remarkable victory.
  • LAURELS
    Pieces of gold, coined in 1619, with the king's head laureated; hence the name.
  • LAUS DEO
    Lat. Praise be to God. An old heading to bills of exchange.
  • LAVATORIUM
    A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest and other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they proceeded to divine service.
  • LAVOR NUEVA
    In Spanish law. A new work. Las Partidas, pt 3, tit. 32, 1. 1.
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