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  • LUNDRESS
    In old English law. A silver penny, so called because it was to be coined only at London, (a Londre*,) and not at the country mints. Lown. Essay Coins, 17; Cowell.
  • LUPANATRIX
    A bawd or strumpet 3 Inst. 206.
  • LUPINUM CAPUT GERERE
    Lat. To be outlawed, and have one's head exposed, like a wolf's, with a reward to him who should take it Cowell.
  • LURGULARY
    Casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water. Wharton.
  • LUSHBOROW
    In old English law. A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, and Introduced Into England in the reign of Edward III. Prohibited by St 25 Edw. III. c 4. Spelman; Cowell.
  • LUXURY
    Excess and extravagance which was formerly an offense against the public economy, but is not now punishable. Wharton.
  • LYCH-GATE
    The gate into a churchyard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over it to cover the body brought for burial, when it rests underneath. Wharton.
  • LYEF-GELD
    Sax. In old records. Lief silver or money; a small fine paid by the crstomary tenant to the lord for leave to plow or sow, etc. Somn. Gavelkind, 27.
  • LYING BY
    A person who, by his presence and silence at a transaction which affects his interests, may be fairly supposed to ' acquiesce in it, if he afterwards propose to disturb the arrangement, is said to be prevented from doing so by reason that he has been lying by.
  • LYING IN FRANCHISE
    A term descriptive of waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may he seized without suit or action.
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