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A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by chance among persons who have paid, or Source: Black’s […]

In English law. Cer-taln duties which must be paid by thosu who clalm to exercise the elective franchlse within certain cltles and […]

A small tract or par-cel of land in a village, town, or city, suitable for .building, or for a garden, or other […]

In inanranoe. The injury or damage sustained by the insured in consequence of the happening of one or more of the accidents […]

An article is “lost” when the owner has lost the possession or custody of it, iu-voluntarily and by any means, but more […]

In Englisb law. A title o» honor or nobility belonging properly to the degree of baron, but applied also to the Source: […]

In English law. Domin* lou, manor, seigniory, domain; also a title of honor used to a nobleman not being a duke. It […]

A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the […]

Lat. A colloquy; talk. In old Engllsh law, this term denoted the oral altercations of the parties to a suit, which led […]

In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular Source: […]

A proper lookout on a vessel is some one In a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to […]

A name given to the mer-chants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and […]

L. Fr. London. Yearb. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of va-rious kinds; not […]

A body of primitive Wes-leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful iu disseminating evangelical […]

In old records. A lodge, hov-el, or outhouse Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. A*’ public clerk, register, or book-keeper; one Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A small house, lodge, or cot-tage. Mon. Angl. tom. 1, p. 400 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding wbich are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes […]

A mischievous legisla-tive practice, of embracing in one bill several distinct matters, none of which, perhaps, could singly obtain the assent of […]

An unlawful game mention-ed in SL 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old French and Canadian law. A flne payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation […]

A ship’s Journal. It con-tains a minute account of the ship’s course^ with a short history of every occurrence dur-‘ lng the […]

one who occupies hired apnrt-ments iu another’s house; a tenant of part of another’s house Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Habitation in another’s house; apartments in another’s house, fur-nished or unfurnished, occupied for habita-tion; the occupier heing termed a “lodger Source: Black’s […]