The person having or owning -a lien; one who has a right of lien upon property of another
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Fr. Place; room. It is only used with “in;” in lieu, Instead of. Enc. Lond
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A qualified right of property which a creditor has In or over specific property of his debtor, as security for the debt or charge or for performance of some act
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An old form of “lieu-tenant,” and still retained as the vulgar pro-nunciatlon of the word
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In fendal law. Bound by a ” feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who owned no superior
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A sort of lynch law, whereby a person was first punished and then tried, wharton
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To adjoin. A cottage must’ have had four acres of land laid to it See 2 Show. 279
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An ancient formallty by which bargains were completed
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Lat in Roman law. To offer a price at a sale; to bid; to bid often; ’ to make several bids, one above another
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In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a thing in common and undivided between them put it to bid between them, to be ad-judged and to belong to the highest snd last bidder, upon conditlon that he pay to each of hls co-proprietors a part in the price equal to the undlvlded part which each of the said co-proprietors had in the estate licited, before the adjudication. Poth. Cont. Sale, nn. 516, 638
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Lat From the verb “licere:’ (q. v.) Although; notwithstanding. Import-ing, in this sense, a direct affirmation
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In Spanish law. The offering for sale at publlc auction of an estate or property held by co-heirs or joint proprie-tors, which cannot he divided up without det-rirnent to the whole
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Lat To be lawful ; to be al-lowed or permitted by law. Calvln
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LaL In Roman law. To offer u prlce for a thing; to hid for it
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The Indulgence of the arbitrary will of the individual, wlth-out regard to ethics or law, or respect for the rights of others. In this it differs from “liberty;’’ for the latter term may properly be used only of the exercise of the will in lts moral freedom, with Justice to all men and obedience to the lows, welch v. Durand, 36 Conn. 184, 4 Am. Rep. 55; State v. Brigman, 94 N. C. 889
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TS. This expression is applied by Hallam (Const Hist. c. 13) to acts of parliament for the restraint of printing, except by license. It may also be ap-plied to any act of parliament passed for the purpose of requiring a license for doing any act whatever. But, generally, when we speak of the licensing acts, we mean the acts regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors. Mosley & whltley
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In Roman law. A weigb-er or balance-holder. The person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancl-pation per as et libram. Inst 2, 10, 1
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