Lestagium

Lastage or leafage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Cowell

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Leswes

Pastures. Domesday; Co. Litt 4b. A term often inserted in old deeds and conveyances. Cowell

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Lestage, Lastage

A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta

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Lestagefry

Lestoge free, or exempt from the duty of paying ballast money. Cowell

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Lessor

He who grants a lease. Viter-bo v. Friedlander. 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776

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Lest

Fr. In French maritime law. Ballast, ord. Mar. llv. 4, tit. 4. art. 1

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Lespegend

An inferior officer in forests to take care of the vert and venison therein, etc. wharton

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Lessee

He to whom a lease is made. He who holds an estate by vlrtue of a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander, 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776

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Lese Majesty

The old English and Scotch translation of “lasa majestas,” or high treason. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6

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Lesion

Fr. Damage; Injury; detriment Kelham. A term of the Scotch law

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Leprosus

L Lat A leper

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Leschewes

Trees fallen by chance or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 341

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Leporarius

A greyhound. CoweU

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Leporium

A place where hares are kept Mon. Angl. t 2, p.*1035

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Leonina Societas

Lat. An at-tempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits. This was a void partnership in Roman law; and, apparently, it would also be void as a partnership in English law, as being inherently inconsistent with the notion of partnership. (Dig. 17, 2, 29, 2.) Brown

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Lep And Lace

A custom in the man-or of wrlttle, in Essex, that every cart which

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Leodes

In old European law. A vas-sal, or llege man; servlce; a were or were-gild. Spelman

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Leoht-Gesceot

A tax for supplylng the church with lights. Anc. Inst. Eng

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Lent

In ecclesiastical law. The quad-ragesimal fast; a time of abstinence; the time from A6h-wednesday to Easter

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Leod

People; a people; a nation. Spelman

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Lend

To part with a thing of value to another for a time fixed or indefinite, yet to have some time in ending, to be used or en-joyed by that other, the thing itself or the equivalent of it to be given back at the time fixed, or when lawfully asked for, with or without compensation for the use as may be agreed upon. Kent v. Quicksilver Min. Co., 78 N. Y. 177

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Lender

He from whom a thing is bor-rowed. The bailor of an article loaned

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Leidgrave

An officer under the Sax-on government, who had jurisdiction over a lath. Enc. Lond. See Lath

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Leipa

In old English law. A fugitive or runaway

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Legruita

In old records. A flne for crlminal conversatlon with a woman

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