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The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons wbo sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing […]

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

1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king’s tenants in capite or tenants by knight’s service Source: […]

Lat in the civil law. An ob-Uteration or blot in a will or other instru-ment. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1 Source: Black’s […]

In old European lnw. A kind of servant; one who surrendered himself in-to another’s power. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 Amer-ican pints, […]

Belonging to the shore, as of seas and great lakes, webster. Corre-sponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are […]

An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit js going on Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. Lltispendency. The condition of a suit pend-ing in a court of justice Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who is sued for its possession or recovery by […]

Lat in the civil Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

Lat. In tbe oivil and canon law. Contestation of suit; the process of contesting a suit by the op-posing statements of the […]

Span. Litigious; the subject of litigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute in a pending suit, white […]

That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is contested in a court of justice. In another sense, […]

ON. A judicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In Scotch law. The pendency of a suit; it is a tacit legal prohi-bitiou of alienation, to the disappointment of Source: Black’s […]

Lat. To litigate; to carry on a suit, (litem agere,) either as plaintiff or defeudant; to claim or dispute by action; to […]

To dispute or contend in form of law; to carry on a suit Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. The contract of nomcn, which was constitut-ed by writing, (scripturA.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re […]

A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In English ecclesiastical law’. One who qualifies himself for holy or-ders by presenting hlmself as a person accomplished in classical learning, etc., […]

“Ad literaturam po-nere” means to put children to school. This liberty was anciently denied to those parents who were servile tenants, without […]

According to language; following expression in words. A literal con-structlon of a document adheres closely to its words, without making differences for […]

Pertaining to polite learn-ing; connected with the study or use of books and writings Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)