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  • LUPINUM CAPUT GERERE
    Lat. To be outlawed, and have one's head exposed, like a wolf's, with a reward to him who should take it Cowell.
  • LURGULARY
    Casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water. Wharton.
  • LUSHBOROW
    In old English law. A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, and Introduced Into England in the reign of Edward III. Prohibited by St 25 Edw. III. c 4. Spelman; Cowell.
  • LUXURY
    Excess and extravagance which was formerly an offense against the public economy, but is not now punishable. Wharton.
  • LYCH-GATE
    The gate into a churchyard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over it to cover the body brought for burial, when it rests underneath. Wharton.
  • LYEF-GELD
    Sax. In old records. Lief silver or money; a small fine paid by the crstomary tenant to the lord for leave to plow or sow, etc. Somn. Gavelkind, 27.
  • LYING BY
    A person who, by his presence and silence at a transaction which affects his interests, may be fairly supposed to ' acquiesce in it, if he afterwards propose to disturb the arrangement, is said to be prevented from doing so by reason that he has been lying by.
  • LYING IN FRANCHISE
    A term descriptive of waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may he seized without suit or action.
  • LYING IN GRANT
    A phrase applied to incorporeal rights, incapable of manual tradition, and which must pass by mere delivery of a deed.
  • LYING IN WAIT
    Lying in ambush; lying hid or concealed for the purpose of making a sudden and unexpected attack upon a person when he shall arrive at the scene. In some jurisdictions, where there are several degrees of murder, lying In wait Is made evidence of that deliberation and premeditated intent which More...
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