The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons wbo sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing tbe ship and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in her way. Poth. Des Avaries, no. 137
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1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king’s tenants in capite or tenants by knight’s service
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Lat in the civil law. An ob-Uteration or blot in a will or other instru-ment. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1
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In old European lnw. A kind of servant; one who surrendered himself in-to another’s power. Spelman
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Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 Amer-ican pints, or 1.76 English pints, webster
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Belonging to the shore, as of seas and great lakes, webster. Corre-sponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. But “riparian” is also used co-extenslvely with “littoral.” Commonwealth v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 94. See Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 426, 15 L. Ed. 118
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An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit js going on
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In Spanish law. Lltispendency. The condition of a suit pend-ing in a court of justice
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Lat. In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who is sued for its possession or recovery by a third person, falls back upon his vendor’s covenant of warranty, by giving tbe latter notice of the action and demanding hls aid in defending it. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ <03
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Lat. In tbe oivil and canon law. Contestation of suit; the process of contesting a suit by the op-posing statements of the respective parties; the process of coming to an issue; the attainment of an issue; the issue itself
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Span. Litigious; the subject of litigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute in a pending suit, white v. Gay, 1 Tex. 388
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That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense, “11-tigious” signifies fond of litigation; prone to engage in suits
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ON. A judicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right
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In Scotch law. The pendency of a suit; it is a tacit legal prohi-bitiou of alienation, to the disappointment of
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Lat. To litigate; to carry on a suit, (litem agere,) either as plaintiff or defeudant; to claim or dispute by action; to test or try the validity of a claim by action
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To dispute or contend in form of law; to carry on a suit
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In Roman law. The contract of nomcn, which was constitut-ed by writing, (scripturA.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re in personam, when a transaction was transferred from the daybook (adversaria) Into the ledger (codex) in the form of a debt under the name or heading of the purchaser or debtor, (nomen;) and (2) a personA in personam, where a debt already standing under one nomcn or heading was transferred in the usual course of novatio from that nomcn to another and substituted nomen. By reason of this transferring, these obligations were called “nomina transcripti-tia.” No money was, in fact, paid to constitute the contract. If ever money was paid, then the nomcn was arcarium, (i. e., a real contract, re contractus,) and not a nomen proprium. Brown
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A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones
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In English ecclesiastical law’. One who qualifies himself for holy or-ders by presenting hlmself as a person accomplished in classical learning, etc., not as a graduate of oxford, Cambridge, etc
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“Ad literaturam po-nere” means to put children to school. This liberty was anciently denied to those parents who were servile tenants, without the lord’s consent. The prohibition against tbe educa-tion of sons arose from the fear that the son, being bred to letters, might enter into holy orders, and so stop or divert the services which he might otherwise do as heir to bis father. Paroch. Antiq. 401
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According to language; following expression in words. A literal con-structlon of a document adheres closely to its words, without making differences for extrinsic circumstances; a literal performance of a condition is one which complies exactly with its terms
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Pertaining to polite learn-ing; connected with the study or use of books and writings
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