Lat in the clvll law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract fol. 126
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The language of the ancient-Romans. There are three sorts of law Latln: (1) Good Latin, allowed by the grammarians and lawyers; (2) false or lncongruous Latin, which in times past would abate original writs, though it would not make void any judicial writ, declaration, or plea, etc.; (3) words of art, known only to the sages of the law, and not to grammarians, called “Law-yers’ Latln.” wharton
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A possessor of a large estate made up of smaller ones. Du Cange
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A word used by Lord Coke in the sense of an Interpreter. 2 Inst 515. Supposed to be a corruption of the French “latinier,” or “latiner.” Cowell; Blount
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To lie sideways, in opposition to lying endways; used in descriptions of lands
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The name of an ancient clvll division in England, intermediate between the county or shlre and the hundred. Said to he the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was termed a “rape.” 1 Bl. Comm. 116; Cowell; Spelman
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A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between its termlui; it is but another name for a branch road, both be-ing a part of the main road. Newhall v. Railroad Co., 14 111. 273
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The right of lateral and subjacent support is that right which the owner of laud has to have hls land supported by the adjoining land or tbe soil
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Hidden; concealed; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See Ambiouitt
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In old records. Sldesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell
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Thls word has been held to have “a very large retrospect, as we say ‘lately deceased’ of one dead ten or twenty years.” Per. Cur. 2 Show. 294
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Lat Latent; hidden; not apparent. See Ambiguitas
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Defunct; existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 190. Formerly; recently; lately
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A custom exacted in some fairs and markets to carry things bought whither one will. But it is more accurately taken for the ballast or lading of a ship. Also custom paid for wares sold by the last, as herrings, pitch, etc. wharton
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Lat. In the law of bail-ment Gross fault or neglect; extreme negll-gence or carelessness, (nimia neffUgentia.) Dlg. CO, 16, 213, 2
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Tending to excite lust; lewd; indecent; obscene; relating to sexual impurity; tending to deprave the morals in respect to sexual relations. See Swearingen v. U. S., 161 U. S. 446, 16 Sup. Ct. 562, 40 L. Ed. 765; U. S. v. Britton (Com. C.) 17 Fed. 733; Dunlop v. U. S., 165 U. S. 486, 17 Sup. CL 375, 41 L. Ed. 799; U. S. v. Durant (D
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or LA8HLITE. A kind of forfeiture duriug the government of the Danes in England. Enc. Lond
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In Spanish law. The name of a code of laws, more fully described as “Las Siete Partidas,” (“the seven parts,” from the number of its divisions,) which was compiled under the direction of Alphonso X., about the year 1250. Its sources were the customary law of all the prov-inces, the canon law as there administered, and (chiefly) the Roman law. This work has always been regarded aa of the highest authority in Spain and in those countries and states which bave derived their jurispru-dence from Spain
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A native Indian sailor; the term is also applied to tent pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and others
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L. Fr. Broad; the opposite of “estreyte,” strait or strict. Purea et large*. Brltt. c. 34
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The king’s lard-erer, or clerk of the kitchen. Cowell
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ln the manor of Bradford, in wilts, the tenants pay to their lord a small yearly rent by this name, whicli is said to be for liberty to feed their hogs with the masts of the lord’s wood, the fat of a hog being called “lard;” or it may be a commutation for some customary service of carrying salt or meat to the lord’s larder. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 321
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