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  • LUGGAGE
    Luggage may consist of any articles intended for the use of a passenger while traveling, or for his personal equipment Civ. Code Cal. ? 2181. This term is synonymous with "baggage," but is more commonly used in England than In America. See Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Shepherd, 8 Exch. More...
  • LUMEN
    Lat. In the civil law. Light; the light of the sun or sky; the privilege of receiving light into a house. A light or window.
  • LUMINA
    Lat In the civil law. Lights; windows; openings to obtain light for one's building.
  • LUMINARE
    A lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof lands and rent-charges were frequently given to parish churches, etc. Kennett, Gloss.
  • LUMPING SALE
    As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as where several distinct parcels of real estate, or several articles of personal property, are sold together for a "lump" or single gross sum. Anniston Pipeworks v. Williams, 100 Ala. 324,18 South. Ill, 54 Am. St Rep. 51.
  • LUNACY
    Lunacy is that condition or habit in which the mind is directed by the will, but is wholly or partially misguided or erroneously governed by it; or it is the impairment of any one or more of the faculties of the mind, accompanied with or inducing a defect in the More...
  • LUNAR
    Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon, o-Lunar month. See MONTH.
  • LUNATIC
    A person of deranged or unsound mind; a person whose mental faculties are in the condition called "lunacy," (q. v.) Lunations, qui gaudet in lucidis in-terrains. He Is a lunatic who enjoys lucid intervals. 1 Story, Cont ? 73.
  • 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.
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