Legal Term Dictionary

A person appointed to carry out the winding up of a company. -Official liquidator. In English law. A person appointed bv the judge in chancery, in whose court a joint^tock company is being wound up, to bring and defend suits and actions in the name of the company, and generally More...

A person appointed to carry out the winding up of a company. -Official liquidator. In English law. A person appointed bv the judge in chancery, in whose court a joint^tock company is being wound up, to bring and defend suits and actions in the name of the company, and generally to do all things necessary for winding up the affairs of the company, and distributing its assets. 8 Steph, Comm. 24.* Less...

This term, when used in statutes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or Intoxicating liquors. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 89 N. G. 576; People v. Crilley, 20 Barb. (N. Y.) 248. See INTOXICATING LIQUOR; SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR. -Liquor dealer. Dne More...

This term, when used in statutes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or Intoxicating liquors. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 89 N. G. 576; People v. Crilley, 20 Barb. (N. Y.) 248. See INTOXICATING LIQUOR; SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR. -Liquor dealer. Dne who carries on tbe business of selling intoxicating liquors, either at wholesale or retail, and irrespective of whether the liquor sold is produced or manufactured by himself or by others; but there must be more than a single sale. See Timm v. Harrison, 109 111. 601; U. S. v. Allen (D. C.J 38 Fed. 738; Fincannon v. State, 93 Ga. 418, 21 S. E. 53; State v. Dow, 21 Vt 484; Mansfield v. State, 17 Tex. App. 472.-Liquor-shop. A house where spirituous liquors are kept and sold. Wooster v. State, 6 Baxt (Tenn.) 534. -Liquor tan certificate. Under the excise laws of New York, a certificate of payment of the tax imposed upon the business of liquor-selling, entitling the holder to carry on that business, and differing from the ordinary form of license in that it does not confer a mere personal privilege but creates a species of property which is transferable by the owner. See In re Lyman. 160 N. Y. 96, 54 N. E. 577: In re Cullinan, 82 App. Div. 445, 81 N. Y. Supp. 567. Less...

The name of an Italian coin, of the value of about eighteen cents.

The name of an Italian coin, of the value of about eighteen cents. Less...

Lat. A controversy or dispute; a snit or action at law. -Lis alibi pendens. A suit pending elsewhere. The fact that proceedings are pending between a plaintiff and defendant in one court in respect to a given matter is frequently a ground for preventing the plaintiff from taking proceedings in More...

Lat. A controversy or dispute; a snit or action at law. -Lis alibi pendens. A suit pending elsewhere. The fact that proceedings are pending between a plaintiff and defendant in one court in respect to a given matter is frequently a ground for preventing the plaintiff from taking proceedings in another court against the same defendant for the same object and arising out of the same cause of action. Sweet. -Lis mota. A controversy moved or begun. By this term is meant a dispute which has arisen upon a point or question which afterwards forms the issue upon which legal proceedings are instituted. Westfelt v. Adams, 131 N. 0. 379, 42 S. E. 823. After such controversy has arisen, {post litem motam,) it is held, declarations as to pedigree, made by members of the family since deceased, are not admissible. See 4 Camp. 417; 6 Car. A P. 560.-Lis pen-dans. A suit pending; that legal process, in a suit regarding land, which amounts to legal notice to all the world that there is a dispute as to the title. In equity the filing of the bill and serving a subpoena creates a lis pendens, except when statutes require some record. Stim. Law Gloss. See Boyd v. Emmons, 103 Ky. 393, 45 S. W. 864; Tinsley v. Rice, 105 Ga. 285, 1 S. E. 174; Bowen v. Kirkland, 17 Tex. Civ. App. 346, 44 S. W. 189; Hines v. Duncan. 79 Ala. 117, 58 Am. Rep. 580. In the civil law. A suit pending. A suit was not said to be pending before that stare of it' called "litis contestation (q. v.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 219; Calvin.-Notice of lis pendent. A notice filed for the purpose of warning-all persons that the title to certain property is In litigation, and that, if they purchase the defendant's claim to the same, they are in danger of being bound by an adverse judgment See Empire Land A Canal Co. v. Bagley, 18 Colo. 388, 33 Pac 153. Less...

A docket or calendar of causes ready for trial or argument or of motions ready for hearing.

A docket or calendar of causes ready for trial or argument or of motions ready for hearing. Less...

Included in a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property.

Included in a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property. Less...

This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. St Vt 538.

This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. St Vt 538. Less...

Lat Pending the suit Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, { 23.

Lat Pending the suit Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, { 23. Less...

Lat In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another; particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued In respect to it by a third person, gives notice to his vendor and demands his aid in its defense. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, More...

Lat In the civil law. To cast the burden of a suit upon another; particularly used with reference to a purchaser of property who, being sued In respect to it by a third person, gives notice to his vendor and demands his aid in its defense. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 403. Less...

Lat To make a suit his own. Where a judex, from partiality or enmity, evidently favored either of the parties, he was said litem suam facere. Calvin.

Lat To make a suit his own. Where a judex, from partiality or enmity, evidently favored either of the parties, he was said litem suam facere. Calvin. Less...