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Having the character of larceny; as a “larcenous taking.” Contemplating or intending larceny; as a “larcenous purpose.” Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from […]

Lat in the civil law. Pre-clous stones. Dig. 34, 2,19,17. Dlstlnguish-ed from “gems,” (gemmae.) Id Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A marble stone Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The act of stoning a person to death Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civU law. A stone-quarry/ Dig. 7, L 9, 2 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A sort of base coin, for-merly current in England. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

AS. In Spanish law. A commuta-tlon in money, paid by the nobles and high ofilcers, in lieu of the quota of soldiers […]

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical […]

(Lat. Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by tbe sheriff when a defendant, whom he has taken by virtue […]

A lord of a mahor. 1 Inst 5 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to thelr knees. Mon. Angl. 419 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

This term, the plural of “land,” is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification than either “tene-ments” […]

In Swedish law. A body of common lnw, compiled about the thirteenth century, out of the particular customs of every province; being […]

He of whom lands or ten-ementa are holdeu. He who, being tbe owner of an estate in land, has leased the same […]

A monument or erection set up on the boundary line of two adjoining estates, to fix such boundary. The removing of a […]

In Saxon law. Services and duties laid upon all that held land, including the three obligations culled “trino Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

An expression some-times applied to a piece of land belonging to one persou and surrounded hy land belonging to other persons, so […]

In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A piace on a river or other navigable water for lading and unlading goods, or for tlie reception and delivery of passengers; […]

Sax. In old English laW. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

A name formerly given to those who executed justice on behalf of the German emperors, with regard to the internal policy of […]

Consisting in real estate or land; having an estate in land Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A landlord; a lord of the soli Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. An ancient customary flue, paid either in money or cattle, at every alienation of land lying within some […]