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  • LEONINA SOCIETAS
    Lat. An attempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits. This was a void partnership in Roman law; and, apparently, it would also be void as a partnership in English law, as being Inherently inconsistent with the notion of More...
  • LEP AND LACE
    A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (except it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to the lord. Blount
  • LEPORARIUS
    A greyhound. Cowell.
  • LEPORIUM
    A place where hares are kept Mon. Angl. t 2, p.'1035.
  • LEPROSUS
    L. Lat A leper. -Lcproso anoveaao. An ancient writ that lay to remove a leper or lasar, who thrust himself into the company of his neighbors in any parish, either in the church or at other public meetings, to their annoyance. Reg. Orig. 237.
  • LESCHEWES
    Trees fallen by chance or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 841.
  • LESE MAJESTY
    The old English and Scotch translation of "Icssa majestas," or high treason. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.
  • LESION
    Fr. Damage; Injury; detriment Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In tne civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract Civil Code La. art 1860. Inequality in contracts. Poth. Obi., no. 83. In medical jurisprudence. More...
  • LESPEGEND
    An inferior officer in forests to take care of the vert and venison therein, eta Wharton.
  • LESSEE
    He to whom a lease is made. He who holds an estate by virtue of a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander, 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776.
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