A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forms of iaw. Calvin
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Lawful; legitimate. Legitimus hares et fllius est quem nuptia demo nst rant, a lawful son and heir is he whom the marriage points out to be lawfuL Bract fol. 63
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Lat in Roman law. I bequeath. A common term in wills. Dig. 30, 36, 81, et seq
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The making legltt-mate or lawful that which was not originally so; especially the act of legalizing tbe status of a bastard
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Lat in the dvil law. That portlon of a parent’s estate of which he cannot dlslnherit hls children without a legal cause. Miller v. Mlller, 105 La. 257, 29 South. 802; Cox v. Von Ahlefeldt, 50 La. Ann. 1266, 23 South. 959
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In Scotch law. The chil-dren’s share in the father’s movables
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Lawful blrth; the con-dition of being born in wedlock; the opposite of illegitimacy or bastardy. Davenport v. CaldweU, 10 S. 0. 837; Pratt v. Pratt, 5 Mo. App. 54L
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The department, assembly, or body of men that makes laws for a state or natlon; a legislative body
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Lat A person skill-ed or learned in the law; a lawyer or advo-cate. Feud! lib. 2, fit 1
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The act of giving or enacting laws. State ▼. Hyde, 121 Ind. 20, 22 N. B. 644
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Making or giving laws; pertainlng to the function of law-making or to the process of enactment of laws. See Evansville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. BL 267, 4 L. R. A. 03
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Lat Released from the laws; not bound by the laws. An expression applied in the Roman civil law to the emperor. Calvin
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In old records. Litigious, and so subjected to a course of law. CowelL
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Lat. .Accusative of lex, law. occurring itt various legal phrases, as follows
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Lat Laws. At Rome, the leges (the decrees of the people in a strict sense) were laws which were proposed by a magistrate presiding in the senate, and adopted by the Roman people in the eomitia centuriata. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 31
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Lat. In tbe oivil law. A legacy; a gift left by a deceased person, to be executed by the heir. Inst. 2, 20, 1
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In Roman law. A legacy to A. B. of any article or articles that A. B. liked to choose or select out of the testator’s estate. If A. B. died after the testator, bnt before makiug the choice or selection, his representative (hares) could not, prior to Justinian, make the selection for him, but the legacy failed altogether. Justinian, however, made the legacy good, and enabled the representative to choose. Brown
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The third part of a freeman’s personal estate, which by the custom of London, in case he had a wife and chil-dren, the freeman might always have dispos-ed of by will. Bac. Abr. “Customs of London,” D. 4
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Nuncios, deputies, or extraordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to. be
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Au embassy; a diplomatic minister and bis suite; tbe persons commis-sioned by one government to exercise diplo-matlc functions at the court of another, including the minister, secretaries, attaches, interpreters, etc., are collectively styled the “legation” of their government. The word also denotes the official residence of a foreign minister
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The person to whom a legacy is given. See Legacy
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Lat in the clvll and old English law. To bequeath; to leave or give by will; to give in anticipation of death. In Scoteh phrase, to legate
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