Lat in the civil law. Lights; windows; openings to obtain light for one’s building
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A lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof lands and rent-charges were frequently given to parish churches, etc. Kennett, Gloss
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Luggage may consist of any articles intended for the use of a passenger while traveling, or for his personal equip-ment. Civ. Code Cal. $ 2181
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Lat. In the civil law. Light; the light of the sun or sky; the privilege of receiving light into a house
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AS. A mournful inheritance. See H^keditas Luctuosa
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Lat in criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny, the phrase meaning “for the sake of lucre” or gain. State v. Ryan, 12 Nev. 403, 28 Am. Rep. 802; State v. Slingerland, 19 Nev. 135, 7 Pac. 280
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Lat. In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss
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Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy, webster
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Yielding gain or profit; profitable; bearing or yielding a revenue or salary. •
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Lat in Roman law. A term Including everything which a husband or wife, as such, acquires from the estate of the other, either before the marriage, or on agreeing to it, or during its continuance, or after its dissolution, and whether the acquisition is by pure gift, or by virtue of the marriage contract, or against the will of the other party by law or statute. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 580
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Lat. In Roman law. A consideration which is voluntary; that is to say, a gratuitous gift, or such like. It was opposed to onerosa causa, which denoted a valuable consideration. It was a principle of the Roman law that two lucra-tive causes could not concur in the same person as regarded the same thing; that is to say, that, when the same thing was bequeath-ed to a person by two different testators, he could not have the thing (or its value) twice over. Brown
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Adherence to law. Faithfulness to one’s prince or sovereign or to the existing government
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In medical ju-risprudence. Intervals occurring in the men-tal life of an insane person during which he is completely restored to the use of his reason, or so far restored that be has suffl-dent intelligence, judgment, and will to enter Into contractual relations, or perform other legal acts, without disqualification by reason of his disease. See Insanity
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Fr. In French maritime law. wages, ord. Mar. llv. 1, tit. 14, art. 16
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Legal; authorized by or conforming to law. Also faithful in one’s polit-lcal relations; giving faithful support to one’s prince or sovereign or to the existing government
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The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 189
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In old English law. The day on whlch any dispute was amicably settled between neighbors; or a day on which one neighbor helps another without hire, wharton
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In old European law, jurisdlction of petty offenses, as distinguished from “high Justice,’’ (q. v
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Fr. This is the contract of hiring and letting in Freuch law, and may be either of things or of labor. The varieties of each are the following
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