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A party against whom a libel has been filed in an eccleslastlcal court or in admiralty Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensa-tion, or restitution Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

An old French coin, of sllver or copper, formerly current to a limited extent in England, and there computed as equivalent to […]

An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice to do, pay, or make good something; legal responsibility, wood v. […]

In criminal law. The assembling of a body of men for the purpose of effectlug by force a treasonable object Source: Black’s […]

Licentiousness; an offense against the public economy, when of an an open and notorious character; as by frequenting houses of 111 fame, […]

Degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eight-eenth chapter of Leviticus Source: Black’s […]

A court formerly ex-isting in the District of Columbia. It was a body charged with the administration of the ministerial and financial […]

In Roman law. A husband’s brother; a wife’s brother-in-law. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Light; slight; trifling. Levis culpa, slight fault or neglect. Levissima culpa, the slightest neglect. Levis nota, a slight mark or brand. […]

An embankment or artificial mound of earth constructed along the mar-gin of a river, to confine tbe stream to its natural channel […]

That which may be levied. That which is a proper or permissible sub-Ject for a levy; as, a “leviable interest” in land. […]

Lat A writ of ex Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. An expression used in the Roman law, and applied to the trial of wreck and salvage. Commentators disagree about the origin […]

L. Fr. Ris-ing up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon laud to have […]

Rising up and lying down. A term applied to cattle. 3 Bl. Comm. 9. The Latin equivalent of “levant et couch ant […]

In old Frenob law. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

The act of awarding a contract; e. g., a construction contract, or contract for carrying the mails Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Fr. In French law. A letter. It is used, like our English “letter,” for a formal lnstrument giving authority Source: Black’s Law […]

In Spanish law. An advo-cate. white, New Recop. b. 1, tit 1, c. 1, | 3, note Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

I. one of the arbitrary marks or characters constituting the alphabet, and used in written language as the representatives of so’unds or […]

In practice. To admit a party as a matter of favor; as to open a judgment and “let the defendant in” to […]

In Scotch iaw. A deadly weapon. See State v. Godfrey, 17 or. 300, 20 Pac. 625, 11 Am. St Rep. 830 Source: […]