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  • LAIS GENTS
    L. Fr. Lay people; a jnry.
  • LAITY
    In English law. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, including all the nation, except the clergy, the army, and navy, and subdivided into the nobility and the commonalty; (2) military; (3) maritime, consisting of the navy. Wharton.
  • LAKE
    A large body of water, contained In a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Webster. See Jones v. I^ee. 77 Mich. 35, 43 N. W. 855; Ne-pee-nauk Club v. Wilson, 96 Wis. 290, 71 N. W. 061. The fact More...
  • LAMANEUR
    Fr. In French marine law. A pilot Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit 3.
  • LAMB
    A sheep, ram, or ewe under the age of one year. 4 Car. A P. 216.
  • LAMBARD'S ARCHAIONOMIA
    A work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo-Saxon laws, those of William the Conqueror, and of Henry I.
  • LAMBARD'S EIRENARCHA
    A work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted In English in 1599.
  • LAMBETH DEGREE
    In English law. A degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in prejudice of the universities. 3 Steph. Comm. 65; 1 Bl. Comm. 381.
  • LAME DUCK
    A cant term on the stock exchange for a person unable to .meet his engagements.
  • LAMMAS DAY
    The 1st of August It Is one of the Scotch quarter days, and Is what is called a "conventional term."
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