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  • LODE
    This term, as used in the legislation of congress, is applicable to any zone or belt of mineralized rocit lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes all deposits of mineral matter found through a mineralized zone or helt coming from the same source, impressed with More...
  • LODEMAN, OR LOADSMAN
    The pilot conducts the ship up the river-or into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by the pilot, to the quay or place of discharge. Jacob. ?
  • LODEMANAGE
    The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from one place to another. Cowell.
  • LODGER
    One who occupies hired apartments in another's house; a tenant of part of another's house. A tenant with the right of exclusive possession of a part of a house, the landlord, by himself or an agent retaining general dominion over the house itself. Wansey v. Perkins, 7 Man. A G. More...
  • LODGINGS
    Habitation in another's house; apartments in another's house, furnished or unfurnished, occupied for habitation; the occupier being termed a "lodger."
  • LODS ET VENTES
    In old French and Canadian law. A fine payable by a roturier, on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation fine. Steph. Lect 351.
  • LOG-BOOK
    A ship's Journal. It contains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 312. The part of the log-book relating to transactions in the harbor is termed the "harbor log;" that relating to what happens at sea, the More...
  • LOG-ROLLING
    A mischievous legislative practice, of embracing in one bill several distinct matters, none of which, perhaps, could singly obtain the assent of the legislature, and then procuring its passage by a combination of the minorities in favor of each of the measures into a majority that will adopt them all. More...
  • LOGATING
    An unlawful game mentioned in St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9.
  • LOGIA
    A small house, lodge, or cottage. Mon. Angl. torn. 1, p. 400.
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