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  • LICET
    Lat. From the verb "Keen," fa. t7.) Although; notwithstanding. Importing, in this sense, a direct affirmation. Also, it is allowed, it is permissible. -Licet ssepins reqnisitns. (Although often requested.) In pleading. A phrase used in the old Latin forms of declarations, and literally translated in the modern precedents. Yel. 66; More...
  • LICITACION
    In Spanish law. The offering for sale at public auction of an estate or property held by co-heirs or Joint proprie-' tors, which cannot be divided up without detriment to the whole.
  • LICITARE
    Lat. In Roman law. To offer a price at a sale; to bid; to bid often; * to make several bids, one above another. Calvin.
  • LICITATION
    In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a thing in common and undivided between them put it to bid between them, to be ad-Judged and to More...
  • LICITATOR
    In Roman law. A bidder at a sale.
  • LICKING OF THUMBS
    An ancient formality by which bargains were completed.
  • LIDFORD LAW
    A sort of lynch law, whereby a person was flrst punished and then tried. Wharton.
  • LIE
    To subsist; to exist; to be sustainable; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase "an action will not lie" means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no ground upon which to found the action. -Lie in franchise. Property is said 'to "lie in franchise" when More...
  • LIE TO
    To adjoin. A cottage must have had four acres of land laid to it See 2 Show. 279.
  • LIEFTENANT
    An old form of "lieutenant," and still retained as the vulgar pronunciation of the word.
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