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LaL Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feel-ing or impulse which prompts the commls-sion of an act; hut […]

Lat we will; it is our will. The first word of a clause in the royal writs of protection and letters pateut. […]

A voluntary Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat willing. He is said to be willing who either expressly consents or tacitly makes no opposition. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Lat in the civil law. A volume; so called from its form, being rolled up Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Fr. To speak the truth. This phrase denotes the preliminary examination which the court may make of one presented as a […]

Fr. Carriage; transportation by carriage Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

That may he avoided, or declared void; not absolutely void, or void in itself. Most of the acts of infants are voidable […]

The act of emptying; ejection from a benefice Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civil and old Eng-llsh law. I call; I summon; I vouch. In jus voco te, I summon you to […]

Null; ineffectual; nugatory; hav-lng uo legal force or binding effect; unable, in law, to support the purpose for which it was intended […]

Lut. A summoning to court. In the earlier practice of the Roman law, (under the legis actiones,) the creditor orally called upon […]

Lat. In old English law. outcry; hue and cry. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat words of art; technical terms Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In feudal law. To summon to court Feud. Lib. 2, tit 22 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. A place for keeping wild animals alive, including fishes; a fish pond, park, or warren Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

See Vadium Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat with the living voice; by word of mouth. As applied to the examination of witnesses, this phrase ts equivalent to “orally.” […]

Lat. In the civil law. An inclosed place, where live wild anlmuls are kept Calvin; Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Lat. In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which is-sues from a spring or fountain. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Lat Cattle, which obtained this name from being received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. […]

In old English law. The fault or mistake of a writer or copyist; a clerical error. Gilb. Forum Rom. 185 Source: Black’s […]

LaL In the civil law. A step-father; a mother’s second husband. Cal-vin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. An unwarrantable intermeddling with the movable estate of a person deceased, without the order of law. Ersk. Prln. b. […]

In old English law. The mistake of a clerk; a clerical error Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)