LaL Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feel-ing or impulse which prompts the commls-sion of an act; hut in old English law the term was often used to denote a will, that is, the last will and testament of a decedent, more properly called tcstamentum
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Lat we will; it is our will. The first word of a clause in the royal writs of protection and letters pateut. Cow-ell
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Lat willing. He is said to be willing who either expressly consents or tacitly makes no opposition. Calvin
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Lat in the civil law. A volume; so called from its form, being rolled up
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L. Fr. To speak the truth. This phrase denotes the preliminary examination which the court may make of one presented as a witness or juror, where his competency, interest, etc., is objected to
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That may he avoided, or declared void; not absolutely void, or void in itself. Most of the acts of infants are voidable only, and not absolutely void. 2 Kent, Comm. 234. See Void
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Lat in the civil and old Eng-llsh law. I call; I summon; I vouch. In jus voco te, I summon you to court; I sum-mon you before the pnetor. The formula by which a Roman action was anciently commenced. Adams, Rom. Ant. 242
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Null; ineffectual; nugatory; hav-lng uo legal force or binding effect; unable, in law, to support the purpose for which it was intended
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Lut. A summoning to court. In the earlier practice of the Roman law, (under the legis actiones,) the creditor orally called upon his debtor to go with him before the pnetor for the purpose of determining their controversy, saying, “In jus camus; in jus te voco" This was called “vocatio in jus”
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Lat. In old English law. outcry; hue and cry. Cowell
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In feudal law. To summon to court Feud. Lib. 2, tit 22
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In English law. A place for keeping wild animals alive, including fishes; a fish pond, park, or warren
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Lat with the living voice; by word of mouth. As applied to the examination of witnesses, this phrase ts equivalent to “orally.” It is used in contra-distinction to evidence on affidavits or depo-sitlons. As descriptive of a species of voting, it signifies voting by speech or outcry, as dis-tinguished from voting by a written or print-ed ballot
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Lat. In the civil law. An inclosed place, where live wild anlmuls are kept Calvin; Spelman
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Lat. In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which is-sues from a spring or fountain. Calvin
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Lat Cattle, which obtained this name from being received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. Cowell
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In old English law. The fault or mistake of a writer or copyist; a clerical error. Gilb. Forum Rom. 185
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LaL In the civil law. A step-father; a mother's second husband. Cal-vin
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In Scotch law. An unwarrantable intermeddling with the movable estate of a person deceased, without the order of law. Ersk. Prln. b. 3, tlt 9, | 25. The Irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which
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In old English law. The mistake of a clerk; a clerical error
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