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  • LIBERUM MARITAGIUM
    In old English law. Frank-marriage. Bract fol. 21.
  • LIBERUM SERVITIUM
    Free service. Service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called "servitium liberum armorum* Jacob. Service not unbecoming the character of a freeman and a soldier to perform; as to serve under the lord in his wars, to pay a sum of money, and tne like. 2 Bl. More...
  • LIBERUM SOCAGIUM
    In old English law. Free socage. Bract fol. 207 ; 2 BL Comm. 61, 62.
  • LIBERUM TENEMENTUM
    In real law. Freehold. Frank-tenement In pleading. A plea of freehold. A plea by the defendant in an action of trespass to real property that the locus in quo is his freehold, or that of a third person, under whom he acted. 1 Tldd, Pr. 645.
  • LIBLAC
    In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particularly that kind which consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philters. Sometimes occurring in the Latinized form liblacum.
  • LIBRA
    In old English law. A pound; also a sum of money equal to a pound sterling. -Libra arsa. A pound burned; that is. melted, or assayed by melting, to test its purity. lAbrcr arses et pensatat, pounds burned and weighed. A frequent expression in Domesday, to denote the purer coin More...
  • LIBRARIUS
    In Roman law. A writer or amanuensis; a copyist Dig. 50, 17, 92.
  • LIBRATA TERRAE
    A portion of ground containing four oxgangs, and every oxgang fourteen acres. Cowell. This is the same with what in Scotland was called "pound-land" of old extent Wharton.
  • LIBRIPENS
    In Roman law. A weigher or balance-holder. The person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancipation per ess et libram. Inst 2, 10, 1. Librornm appellations oontinentnr omnia volumina, sire ia obarta, sive in membrana sint, sive in qua vis alia materia. Under the name of books More...
  • LICENCIADO
    In Spanish law. An attorney or advocate; particularly, a person admitted to the degree of "Licentiate in Jurisprudence" by any of the literary universities of Spain, and who is thereby authorized to practice in all the courts. Escriche.
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