Lat In the civil law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract, fol. 126.

Lat. In the civil law . A bearer ; a messenger. Also a maker or giver of laws.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A robber. Dig. 50. 10, 118; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38.

The act of robbing; a depredation .

The prerogative of adjudging and executing thieves; also larceny; theft; a thing stolen.

Larceny.

A second mowing; the aftermath.

A pricing model that uses an assets ending value and calculates backwards to manage the fund.

Lat. In the civil law . To name; to cite or quote; to show one’s title or authority. Calvin. In fendal law. To determine or pass upon judicially. Laudamentum, the […]

Lat. In Roman law. Testimony delivered in court concerning an accused person’s good behavior and integrity of life. It resembled the practice which prevails in our trials of calling persons […]

Lat. An arbitrator; a witness to character.

In Spanish law. The tax paid by the possessor of land held by quit- rent or emphyteusis to the owner of the estate, when the tenant alienates his right in […]

beneath. Stevenson v. Wallace, 27 Grat. (Va.) 77; Farrand v. Marshall, 19 Barb. (N. Y.) 380; Foley v. Wyeth, 2 Allen (Mass.) .131, 79 Am. Dec. 771; 12 Amer. & […]

Lat. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law . Sentence or judgment ; dome or doom. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8.

A kind of offensive weapon, now disused, aud prohibited by 7 Rich. II. c. 13.

1. The act of launching a vessel; the movement of a vessel from the land into the water, especially the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is […]

Converting illegal funds into legal by absorbing it into legal commercial cash flow.

In English law . An officer of the household of the sovereign, whose business formerly consisted only in composing an ode annually, on tiie sovereign’s birthday, and on the new […]

Pieces of gold, coined in 1010, with the king’s head laureated; lieuce the name.

Lat. Praise be to God. An old heading to bills of exchange.

A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest aud other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands […]

In Spanish law. A new work. Las Partidas , pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 1.

1. That which is laid down, ordained, or established. A rule or method according to which phenomena or actions coexist or follow each other. 2. A system of principles and […]

Rapid enforcement of penalties imposed under criminal law drives firm dealing with instances of theft, violence, and disturbance of peace. Law enforcement agencies comply to limit their powers. Society, a […]

The day prescribed in a bond, mortgage, or defeasible deed for payment of the debt secured thereby, or, in default of payment, the forfeiture of the property mortgaged. But this […]