or LOADSMAN. The pilot conducts the ship up the river-or Into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by the pilot, to the quay or place of discharge. Jacob.
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The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from oue place to another. CowelL
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This term, as used in the legis-lation of congress, is applicable to any zone or belt of miueralized rotit lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neigh boriug rock. It includes all deposits of miueral matter found through a miueral-ized zone or belt coming from the same source, impressed with the same forms, and appearing to have been created by the same processes. Eureka Consol. Min. Co. v. Richmond Min. Co., 4 Sawy. 312, 8 Fed. Cas. 823. And see Duggan v. Davey, 4 Dak. 110, 26 N. W. 887; Stevens v. williams, 23 Fed. Cas. 42; Montana Cent Ry. Co. v. Migeon (C. C.) 68 Fed. 813; Meydenbauer v. Stevens (D. C.) 78 Fed. 790; Iron Silver Min. Co. v. Cheeseman, 116 U. S. 529, 6 Sup. Ct. 481, 29 L. Ed. 712; U. S. v. Iron Silver Miu. Co., 128 U. S. 673, 9 Sup. Ct. 195, 32 L. Ed. 571
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Lat Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieutenant, or representative
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Lat in the civil law. Able to respond in an action; good for the amount which the plaintiff might recover. Dig. 50, 16, 234, L
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An oflicer in the Isle of Man, to execute the orders of the governor, much like our under-sheriff, wharton
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Fr. In French marine law. A local pilot whose business was to assist the pilot of the vessel in guiding her course Into a harbor, or through a river or channel. Martin v. Farnsworth, 33 N. I. Super. CL 260
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In tbe oivil and Sootob. law. A letter; one who lets; he who, belng the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913
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In a deed, patent, or other instrument containing a description of land, locative calls are specific calls, de-scriptlons, or marks of location, referring to landmarks, physical oOjects, or other points by which tbe laud can be exactly located and Identified
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To ascertain and fix the posi-tion of something, the place of which was before uncertain or not manifest; as to locate the calls in a deed
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Lat. In the civil law. Let ting for hire. The term is also used by text-writers upon the law of bailment at common law. In Scotch law it is translated “location.” BelL
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To let for hire; to deliver or bail a thing for a certain reward or compensation. Bract fol. 62
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In old European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent Spelman
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Relating to place; expressive of place; belonging or confined to a partlcu-lar place. Distinguished from “general,” “personal,” and “transitory
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In Scotch law. This name is given to a life-rent created in marrtage contracts in favor of the wife, Instead of leaving her to her legal life-rent of tierce. 1 Bell, Comm. 55
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A bailment without reward; con-slsting of the delivery of an article hy the owner to another person, to be used by the latter gratuitously, and returned either in specie or in kind. A sum of money confided ■ to another. Ramsey v. whitbeck, 81 111. App. x 210; Nichols v. Fearson, 7 Pet. 109, 8 L. Ed. 623; Rodman v. Munson, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 75; Booth v. Terrell, 16 Ga. 25; Payne v. Gardiner, 29 N. Y. 167
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“Lobbying” is defined to be any personal solicitation of a member of a legislative body during a session thereof, by private Interview, or letter or message, or other means and appliances not addressed solely to the judgment, to favor or oppose, or to vote for or against, any bill, resolution, report, or claim pending, or to be Introduced by either branch thereof, by any person who misrepresents the nature of hls interest in the matter to snch member, or who is em-ployed for a consideration by a person or corporation interested in the passage or defeat of such bill, resolution, report, or claim, for the purpose of procuring the passage or de-feat thereof. But this does not include such services as drafting petitions, bills, or reso-lutlons, attending to the taking of testimony, collecting facts, preparing arguments and memorials, and submitting them orally or in writing to a committee or member of the legislature, and other services of like character, intended to reach the reason of legislators. Code Ga. 1882, § 4486. And see Colusa Coun-ty v. welch, 122 Cal. 428, 55 Pac. 248; Trlst v. Child. 21 wall. 448, 22 L. Ed. 623; Dun-ham v. Hastings Pavement Co., 56 App. Dlv. 244, 67 N. Y. Supp. 632; Houlton v. NIchol
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A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act Cong. March. 2, 1798, 8 61; 1 Story, Laws; 629
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