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  • LADY
    In English law. The title belonging to the wife of a peer, and (by courtesy) the wife of a baronet or knight, and also to any woman, married or sole, whose father was a nobleman of a rank not lower than that of earl. 1 -Lady-oonrt. In English law. The More...
  • LAESA MAJESTAS
    Lat. Leze-majes-ty, or injured majesty; high treason. It is a phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any offense against the king's person or dignity.
  • LAESIO ULTRA DIMIDIUM VEL ENORMIS
    In Roman law. The injury sustained by one of the parties to an onerous contract when he had been overreached by the other to the extent of more than one-half of the value of the subject-matter; e. p., when a vendor had not received half the value of property sold, More...
  • LAESIONE FIDEL, SUITS PRO
    Suits In the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual offenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity, was checked by the constitutions of Clarendon, A. D. 1164. 3 Bl. Comm. 52.
  • LAESIWERP
    A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing given or delivered. Spelman.
  • LAET
    In old English law. One of a class between servile and free. Palgrave, i. 354.
  • LAETARE JERUSALEM
    Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also denominated "quadragesimalia." Wharton.
  • LAETHE, OR LATHE
    A division or district peculiar to the county of Kent Spelman.
  • LAFORDSWIC
    In Saxon law. A betraying of one's lord or master.
  • LAGA
    L. Lat, from the Saxon "lag." Law; a law.
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