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Lat in the clvll law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, […]

The language of the ancient-Romans. There are three sorts of law Latln: (1) Good Latin, allowed by the grammarians and lawyers; (2) […]

An lnterpreter of Latin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A possessor of a large estate made up of smaller ones. Du Cange Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A word used by Lord Coke in the sense of an Interpreter. 2 Inst 515. Supposed to be a corruption of the […]

To lie sideways, in opposition to lying endways; used in descriptions of lands Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The name of an ancient clvll division in England, intermediate between the county or shlre and the hundred. Said to he the […]

A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between its termlui; it is but another name […]

The right of lateral and subjacent support is that right which the owner of laud has to have hls land supported by […]

Hidden; concealed; that does not appear upon the face of a thing; as, a latent ambiguity. See Ambiouitt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In old records. Sldesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Thls word has been held to have “a very large retrospect, as we say ‘lately deceased’ of one dead ten or twenty […]

Lat Latent; hidden; not apparent. See Ambiguitas Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An under-ground Burvey Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Defunct; existing recently, but now dead. Pleasant v. State, 17 Ala. 190. Formerly; recently; lately Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A custom exacted in some fairs and markets to carry things bought whither one will. But it is more accurately taken for […]

Lat. In the law of bail-ment Gross fault or neglect; extreme negll-gence or carelessness, (nimia neffUgentia.) Dlg. CO, 16, 213, 2 Source: […]

Tending to excite lust; lewd; indecent; obscene; relating to sexual impurity; tending to deprave the morals in respect to sexual relations. See […]

or LA8HLITE. A kind of forfeiture duriug the government of the Danes in England. Enc. Lond Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Spanish law. The name of a code of laws, more fully described as “Las Siete Partidas,” (“the seven parts,” from the […]

A native Indian sailor; the term is also applied to tent pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and others Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

L. Fr. Broad; the opposite of “estreyte,” strait or strict. Purea et large*. Brltt. c. 34 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

NS. In old English Uw. Thieves Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The king’s lard-erer, or clerk of the kitchen. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

ln the manor of Bradford, in wilts, the tenants pay to their lord a small yearly rent by this name, whicli is […]