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  • LOTHERWITE, OR LEYERWIT
    In old English law. A liberty or privilege to take amends for lying with a bondwoman without license.
  • LOTTERY
    A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by chance among persons who have paid, or promised or agreed to pay, any valuable consideration for tbe chance of obtaining such property, or a portion of It, or for any share of or interest in such property, More...
  • LOUAGE
    Fr. This is the contract of hiring and letting in French, law, and may be either of things or of labor. The varieties of each are the following: . 1. Letting of things,-bail & loycr being the letting of houses; bail a ferme being the letting of lands. 2. Letting More...
  • LOURCURDUS
    A ram or bell-wether. Cowell.
  • LOVE-DAY
    In old English law. The day on which any dispute was amicably settled between neighbors; or a day on which one neighbor helps another without hire. Wharton.
  • LOW JUSTICE
    In old European law, jurisdiction of petty offenses, as distinguished from "high justice," (g. t>.)
  • LOW WATER
    The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 189. -Low-water mark. See WATER-MARK.
  • LOWBOTE
    A recompense for the death of a man killed in a tumult. Cowell.
  • LOWERS
    Fr. In French maritime law. Wages. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 14, art. 16.
  • LOYAL
    Legal; authorized by or conforming to law. Also faithful in one's political relations; giving faithful support to one's prince or sovereign or to the existing government
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