Legal Term Dictionary

That state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or In which its organs are capable of performing their functions. Webster. The sum of the forces by which death la resisted. Bichat -Life-annuity. An engagement to pay an Income More...

That state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or In which its organs are capable of performing their functions. Webster. The sum of the forces by which death la resisted. Bichat -Life-annuity. An engagement to pay an Income yearly during the life of some person; also the sum thus promised.-Life-estate. An estate whose duration is limited to the life of the party holding it, or of some other person; a freehold estate, not of inheritance. Williams v. Ratcliff, 42 Miss. 154; Civ. Code Ga. 1805, fi 3087.-Life in being. A phrase used in the common-law and statutory rules against perpetuities, meaning the remaining duration of the fe of a person who Is in existence at the time when the deed or will takes effect. See McArthur v. Scott, 113 U. S. 340, 5 Sup. Ct. 652, 28 L. Ed. 1015.-Life insurance. See INSURANCE.-Life-interest. A claim or interest, not amounting to ownership and limited by a term of life, either that of tne person in whom the right is vested or that of another.-Life-land, or Life-hold. Land held on a lease for lives.-Life of a writ. The period during which a writ (execution, etc.) remains effective and can lawfully be served or levied, terminating with the day on which, by law or by its own terms, it is to be returned into court.- Life peerage. Letters patent, conferring the dignity of baron for life only, do not enable the grantee to sit and vote in the house of lords, not even with the usual writ of summons to the house. Wharton.-Life policy. A policy of life insurance; a policy of insurance upon the life of an individual.-Life-rent. In Scotch law. An estate for life; a right to the use and enjoyment of an estate or thing for one's life, but without destruction of its substance. They are either legal, such as terce and curtesy, (a. v.9) or conventional, i. c, created by act of the parties. Conventional life-rents are either simple, where the owner of an estate grants a life-interest to another, or by reservation, where the owner, in conveying away the fee, reserves a life-estate to himself.-Life-renter. In Scotch law. A tenant for life without waste. Bell.-Life tenant. One who holds an estate in lands for the period of his own life or that of another certain person.-Natural life. The period of a person's existence considered as continuing until terminated by physical dissolution or death occurring in the course of nature; used in contradistinction to that juristic and artificial conception Of life as an aggregate of legal rights or the possession of a legal personality, which could be terminated by "civil death, that is, that extinction of personality which resulted from entering a monastery or being attainted of treason or felony. See People v. Wright, 80 Mich. 70, 60 N. W. 792. Less...

To raise; to take up. To "lift" a promissory note is to discharge its obligation by paying Its amount or substituting another evidence of debt. To "lift the bar" of the statute of limitations, or of an estoppel, is to remove the obstruction which it interposes, by some sufficient act More...

To raise; to take up. To "lift" a promissory note is to discharge its obligation by paying Its amount or substituting another evidence of debt. To "lift the bar" of the statute of limitations, or of an estoppel, is to remove the obstruction which it interposes, by some sufficient act or acknowledgment Less...

In old European law. A league or confederation. Spelman.

In old European law. A league or confederation. Spelman. Less...

Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea In storms or shipwrecks, and remain there, without coming to land, they are distinguished by the barbarous names of "jetsam," "flotsam," More...

Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea In storms or shipwrecks, and remain there, without coming to land, they are distinguished by the barbarous names of "jetsam," "flotsam," and "ligan." 5* Coke, 108; Harg. State Tr. 48; 1 Bl. Comm. 202. Less...

To tie or bind. Bract, fol. 869b. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman.

To tie or bind. Bract, fol. 869b. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman. Less...

In old English law. A liege-woman; a female subject. Reg. Orig. 312b.

In old English law. A liege-woman; a female subject. Reg. Orig. 312b. Less...

Allegiance; the faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government Also, derivatively, the territory of a state or sovereignty.

Allegiance; the faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government Also, derivatively, the territory of a state or sovereignty. Less...

Lat. Ligeance; allegiance. Ligeantia est quasi legis essentia; est vinculum fldei. Co. Litt 129. Allegiance is, as it were, the essence of law; it is the chain of faith. Ligeantia natnralis nnllls claustria eoercetur, nnllit metis refrssnatur, nnllls nnibus premitnr. 7 Coke, 10. Natural allegiance is restrained by no barriers, More...

Lat. Ligeance; allegiance. Ligeantia est quasi legis essentia; est vinculum fldei. Co. Litt 129. Allegiance is, as it were, the essence of law; it is the chain of faith. Ligeantia natnralis nnllls claustria eoercetur, nnllit metis refrssnatur, nnllls nnibus premitnr. 7 Coke, 10. Natural allegiance is restrained by no barriers, reined by no bounds, compressed by no limits. Less...

In old records. A liege.

In old records. A liege. Less...

A window, or opening in the wall for the admission of light Also a privilege or easement to have light admitted into one's building by the openings made for that purpose, without obstruction or obscuration by the walls of adjacent or neighboring structures.

A window, or opening in the wall for the admission of light Also a privilege or easement to have light admitted into one's building by the openings made for that purpose, without obstruction or obscuration by the walls of adjacent or neighboring structures. Less...