Legal Term Dictionary

Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints. Webster.

Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints. Webster. Less...

Belonging to the shore, as of seas and great lakes. Webster. Corresponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. But "riparian" is also used co-extensively with "littoral." Commonwealth v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 94. See Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. More...

Belonging to the shore, as of seas and great lakes. Webster. Corresponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. But "riparian" is also used co-extensively with "littoral." Commonwealth v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 94. See Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 426, 15 L. Ed. 11& Less...

Lat In the civil law. An obliteration or blot in a will or other Instrument. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1.

Lat In the civil law. An obliteration or blot in a will or other Instrument. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1. Less...

In old European law. A kind of servant; one who surrendered himself into another's power. Spelman. In the oivil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea; the coast -Litns maris. The sea-shore. "It is certain that that which the sea overflows, either at high spring tides More...

In old European law. A kind of servant; one who surrendered himself into another's power. Spelman. In the oivil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea; the coast -Litns maris. The sea-shore. "It is certain that that which the sea overflows, either at high spring tides or at extraordinary tides, comes not as to this purpose, under the denomination of 'litus maris,9 and consequently the kind's title is not of that large extent, but only to land that is usually overflowed at ordinary tides. That, therefore, I call the 'shore* that is between the common high-water and low-water mark, and no more." Hale de Jure Mar. c 4. Litns est qnonsqno manlmns flnetns a atari pervenit. The shore is where the highest wave from the sea has reached. Dig. 50, 16, 96. Ang. Tide-Waters, 67. Less...

See INSURANCE.

See INSURANCE. Less...

Maintenance; support.

Maintenance; support. Less...

1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king's tenants in capite or tenants by knight's service. "2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward in chivalry, on reaching his majority, to obtain delivery of the possession of his lands out of the More...

1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king's tenants in capite or tenants by knight's service. "2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward in chivalry, on reaching his majority, to obtain delivery of the possession of his lands out of the hands of the guardian. 2 Bl. Comm. 68." "3. A particular dress or garb appropriate or peculiar to certain persons, as the members of a guild, or, more particularly, tbe servants of a nobleman or gentleman." "4. The privilege of a particular guild or company of persons, the members thereof being called "livery-men."" "5. A contract of hiring of work-beasts, particularly horses, to the use of the hirer. It is seldom used alone in this sense, but appears in the compound, "livery-stable."" -Livery in chivalry. In feudal law. The delivery of the lands of a ward in chivalry out of the guardian's hands, upon the heir's attaining the requisite age,-twenty-one for males, sixteen for females. 2 Bl. Comm. 68.-Liveryman. A member of some company in the city of London; also called a "freeman."-Livery of seisin. The appropriate ceremony, at common law, for transferring the corporal possession of lands or tenements by a grantor to his grantee. It was livery in deed where the parties went together upon the land, and there a twig, clod, key, or other symbol was delivered in the name of the whole. Livery in law was where the same ceremony was performed, not upon the land itself, but in sight of it. 2 Bl. Comm. 315, 316; Micheau v. Crawford, 8 N. J. Law, 108; Northern Pac. R. Co. v. Cannoa (C. C.) 46 Fed. 232.-Livery-office. An office appointed for the delivery of lands.-Livery stable keeper. One whose business it is to keep horses for hire or to let or to keep, feed, or board horses for others. . Kittanning Borough v. Montgomery, 5 Pa. Super. Ct. 193. Less...

A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act Cong. March. 2, 1798, { 61; 1 Story, Laws; 629.

A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act Cong. March. 2, 1798, { 61; 1 Story, Laws; 629. Less...

An association in the city of London, for the transaction of marine insurance, the members of which underwrite each other's policies. See Durbrow v. Eppens, 65 N. J. Law, 10, 46 Atl. 585. -Lloyd's bonds. The name of a class of evidences of debt nsed in England; being acknowledgments, by More...

An association in the city of London, for the transaction of marine insurance, the members of which underwrite each other's policies. See Durbrow v. Eppens, 65 N. J. Law, 10, 46 Atl. 585. -Lloyd's bonds. The name of a class of evidences of debt nsed in England; being acknowledgments, by a borrowing company made under its seal, of a debt incurred and actually due by the company to a contractor or other person for work done, goods supplied, or otherwise, as the case may be, with a covenant for payment of the principal and interest at a future time. Brown. Less...

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in .her way. Poth. Des Avaries, no. 137.

The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in .her way. Poth. Des Avaries, no. 137. Less...