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Lat in the civil law. Lights; windows; openings to obtain light for one’s building Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof lands and rent-charges were […]

Luggage may consist of any articles intended for the use of a passenger while traveling, or for his personal equip-ment. Civ. Code […]

Lat. In the civil law. Light; the light of the sun or sky; the privilege of receiving light into a house Source: […]

AS. A mournful inheritance. See H^keditas Luctuosa Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. Mourning. See Annus Luctus Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny, the phrase meaning […]

Lat. In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

ln Scotch law. A gainer Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy, webster Source: […]

Lat This Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Yielding gain or profit; profitable; bearing or yielding a revenue or salary. • Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in Roman law. A term Including everything which a husband or wife, as such, acquires from the estate of the other, […]

Lat. In Roman law. A consideration which is voluntary; that is to say, a gratuitous gift, or such like. It was opposed […]

Adherence to law. Faithfulness to one’s prince or sovereign or to the existing government Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In medical ju-risprudence. Intervals occurring in the men-tal life of an insane person during which he is completely restored to the use […]

Fr. In French maritime law. wages, ord. Mar. llv. 1, tit. 14, art. 16 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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 […]

The furthest receding point of ebb-tide. Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 417, 14 L. Ed. 189 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A recompense for the death Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. The day on whlch any dispute was amicably settled between neighbors; or a day on which one neighbor […]

In old European law, jurisdlction of petty offenses, as distinguished from “high Justice,’’ (q. v Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. This is the contract of hiring and letting in Freuch law, and may be either of things or of labor. The […]

A ram or bell-wether Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

TE, or LEYERWIT. In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)