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Those seas which run between two coasts not far apart. The term is sometimes applied to the English channel, wharton Source: Black’s […]

Lat. That shall hereafter be born. A term used in marriage settlements to designate the future issue of the marriage, as distinguished […]

In Scotch conveyancing. That part of a deed which describes the gran-tor, and person in whose favor the deed is granted, and […]

A countor; a pleader who draws nam. Serviens narrator, a serjeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A common abbreviation of “nar-ratio,” (q. v.) A declaration in au action. Jacob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat one of the common law names for a plaintiff’s count or declara-tion, as being a narrative of the facts on which […]

L. Lat in old English law. A taking; a dlstress. Spelman. Things, goods, or animals taken hy way of distress. Simplex namium, […]

A celebrated law for the security of Protestants, made by Henry IV. of France, and revoked by Louis XIV., october 2, 1685 […]

L. Lat. In old English and Scotch law. A distraining or taking of a distress; an impounding. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

The designation of an individual person, or of a firm or corporation. In law a man cannot have more than one Christian […]

As a term of jurisprudence, this word is equivalent to hare, wanting in nec-essary conditions, lncomplete, as a naked con-tract, (niifluni pactum,) […]

L. Lat in old records. To take, seize, or distrain Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Fr. A villein; a born slave; a bondwoman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A lineal measure of two inches and a quarter Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. The attaching or taking of movable goods and chattels, called “vif” or “mort” according as the chattels were living or dead. […]

. originally the governor of a province nnder the Mogul government of Hln-dostan, whence it became a mere title of any man […]

In the law of Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

I. An abbreviation for “non est inventus” he is not found Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Monastic habitation; perhaps the part of a monastery set apart fo.r purposes of hospitality, or as a sanctuary for criminals. Anc. Inst […]

A trade, art, or occupation. 2 Inst 668. Masters frequently bind them-selves in the indentures with their appren-tices to teach them their […]

Lat. In civll and old English law. Dumb and deaf Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the law of bailments. A loan for consumption; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the bor-rower may consume […]

To borrow; mutuatus, a borrowing. 2 Arch. Pr. 25 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person who borrows personal chattels to be consumed by him and returned to the lender in kind and quau-tlty; the borrower […]

Reciprocation; inter-change. An acting by each of two partles; an acting in return Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)