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  • LEGRUITA
    In old records. A fine for Criminal conversation with a woman.
  • LEGULEIUS
    A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forma of law. Calvin.
  • LEIDGRAVE
    An officer under the Saxon government who had jurisdiction over a lath. Enc. Lond. See LATH.
  • LEIPA
    In old English law. A fugitive or runaway.
  • LEND
    To part with a thing of value to another for a time fixed or indefinite, yet to have some time In ending, to be used or enjoyed by that other, the thing itself or the equivalent of it to be given back at the time fixed, or when lawfully asked More...
  • LENDER
    He from whom a thing is borrowed. The bailor of an article loaned.
  • LENT
    In ecclesiastical law. The quadragesimal fast; a time of abstinence; the time from Ash-Wednesday to Easter.
  • LEOD
    People; a people; a nation. Spelman.
  • LEODES
    In old European law. A vassal, or liege man; service; a tcere or were-gild Spelman.
  • LEOHT-GESCEOT
    A tax for supplying the church with lights. Anc. Inst. JEng.
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