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  • LANDS
    This term, the plural of "land," is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification than either "tenements" or "hereditaments." But in some of; the states it has been provided by statute that it shall include both those terms. -Lands clauses consolidation acts. The name given More...
  • LANDSLAGH
    In Swedish law. A body of common law, compiled about the thirteenth century, out of the particular customs of every province; being analogous to the common laic of England. 1 Bl. Comm. 66.
  • LANDWARD
    In Scotch law. Rural. 7 Bell, App. Cas. 2.
  • LANGEMAN
    A lord of a manor. 1 lust 5.
  • LANGEOLUM
    An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Mon. Angl. 410.
  • LANGUAGE
    Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of Ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical import of a document or instrument as distinguished from its spirit; as "the language of the statute." See Behling v. State, 110 Ga. 754, 36 S. E. 85; More...
  • LANGUIDUS
    (Lat. Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process, is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or. health. 3 Chit Pr. 249, 358.
  • LANIS DE CRESCENTIA WALLIAE TRADUCENDIS ABSQUE CUSTUMA
    etc. An ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in Wales. Reg. Orig. 279.
  • LANO NIGER
    A sort of base coin, formerly current in England. Cowell.
  • LANZAS
    In Spanish law. A commutation in money, paid by the nobles and high othcers, in lieu of the quota of soldiers they might be required to furnish in war. Travino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 660.
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