Legal Term Dictionary

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term Includes both the process Itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all other intellectual operations, in so far as auxiliary to this.

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term Includes both the process Itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all other intellectual operations, in so far as auxiliary to this. Less...

In old records. A lodge, hovel, or outhouse.

In old records. A lodge, hovel, or outhouse. Less...

In Roman law. A public clerk, register, or book-keeper: one who wrote or kept books of accounts. Dig. 50, 4, 18, 10; Cod, 10, 09.

In Roman law. A public clerk, register, or book-keeper: one who wrote or kept books of accounts. Dig. 50, 4, 18, 10; Cod, 10, 09. Less...

Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of various kinds; not including manufactured lumber of any sort, nor timber which is squared or otherwise shaped for use without further change in form. Kolloch v. Parcher, 52 Wis. 393, 9 More...

Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of various kinds; not including manufactured lumber of any sort, nor timber which is squared or otherwise shaped for use without further change in form. Kolloch v. Parcher, 52 Wis. 393, 9 N. W. 67. And see Haynes v. Hayward, 40 Me. 148; State v. Addington, 121 N. C. 538, 27 S. E. 988; Code W. Va. 1899, p. 1071, ? 27 (Code 1906, ? 2524). Less...

A body of primitive Wes-leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John Wycllffe, (1360,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against their will) in the insurrection of s the villeins in 1381, the statute De Hwretico Comburen-do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was More...

A body of primitive Wes-leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John Wycllffe, (1360,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against their will) in the insurrection of s the villeins in 1381, the statute De Hwretico Comburen-do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, they were not suppressed, and their representatives survive to the present day under various names and disguises. Brown. Less...

A name given to the merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe.

A name given to the merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe. Less...

L. Fr. London. Yearb. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4.

L. Fr. London. Yearb. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4. Less...

In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular. In the language of the stock exchange, a broker or speculator is said to be "long" on stock, or as to a particular security, when he has in his More...

In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular. In the language of the stock exchange, a broker or speculator is said to be "long" on stock, or as to a particular security, when he has in his possession or control an abundant supply of it, or a supply exceeding the amount which he has contracted to deliver, or, more particularly, when he has bought a supply of such stock or other security for future delivery, speculating on a considerable future advance in the market price. See Kent v. Miltenberger, 13 Mo. App. 506.. -Long account. An account involving numerous separate items or charges, on one side or both, or the statement of various complex transactions, such as a court of equity will refer to a master or commissioner or a court of law to a referee under the codes of procedure. See Dickinson v. Mitchell, 19 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 286; Druse v. Horter, 57 Wis. 644, 16 N. W. 14-21- Metropolitan .El. R. Co., 1 Misc. Rep. 376, 20 N. Y. Supp. 865.-Long parliament. The name usually given to the parliament which met in November, 1640. under Charles I., and was dissolved by Cromwell on the 10th of April, 1653. The name "Long Parliament" is. how-ever also given to the parliament which met oin 1661, after the restoration of the monarchy, and dissolved on the 30th of December, 1678. This latter parliament is sometimes called, by way of distinction, the "long parliament of Charles II." Mozley & Whitley.-Long quinto, the. An expression used to denote part second of the year-book which gives reports of cases in 5 Edw. IV.-Long robe. A metaphorical expression designating the practice or profession of the law: as, in the phrase "gentlemen of the lonp robe.'-Long ton. A measure of weight equivalent to 20 hundred-weight of 112 pounds each, or 2,240 pounds, as distinguished from the "short" ton of 2,000 pounds. See Rev. St U. S. ?2951 (TJ. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1941). But see Jones v. Giles, 10 Exch. 119, as to an English custom of reckoning a ton of iron "long weight" as 2,400 pounds.-Long vacation. The recess of the English courts from August 10th to October 24th. Longa possessio est pacis ins. Long possession is the law of peace. Branch, Princ.; Co. Litt 6. Longa possessio ins parit. Long possession begets right. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15, s 6. Longa possessio parit ins possidendi, et tollit actionem Tero domino. Long possession produces the right of possession, and takes away from the true owner his action. Co. Litt. 110b. Longnm tempus et longns nana qui excedit memoria hominum sufficit pro jnre. Co. Litt. 115a. Long time and long use, exceeding the memory of men, suffices for right. Less...

A proper lookout on a vessel is some one in a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to communicate with him, and to receive communications from him, and exclusively employed in watching the movements of vessels which they are meeting or about to pass. The Genesee More...

A proper lookout on a vessel is some one in a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to communicate with him, and to receive communications from him, and exclusively employed in watching the movements of vessels which they are meeting or about to pass. The Genesee Chief v. Fitzhugh, 12 How. 462, 13 L. Ed. 1058. Less...

A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands of the manor. Sweet.

A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands of the manor. Sweet. Less...