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In old English law. A law day; a tlme of open court; the day of the county court; a juridical day Source: […]

A lawful man; a good and lawful man. A Juror. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Lat., from the Saxon “lag.” Law; a law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

RP. A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing giv-en or delivered. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

or LATHE. A division or district peculiar to the county of Kent. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. The title belonging to the wife of a peer, and (by courtesy) the wife of a baronet or knight, […]

RO. Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual of-fenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt […]

A term of marltime law, applled to a vessel which is freight-ed with a cargo which is neither in casks, boxes, bales, […]

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

In Saxon law. A purgation, or mode of trial by which one purged hlmselt of an accusation; as by oath or ordeal. […]

In old records. A ditch or dyke; a furrow for a drain; a gap or blank in writing Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In the civil law. A lake; a receptacle of water which is never dry. Dig. 43, 14, 1, 3 Source: Black’s Law […]

Negligence, consisting in the omission of something which a party might do, and might reasonably he expected to do, towards the vindication […]

A measure of land equal to one pole. This term is widely used in Cornwall Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A fathom. Co. Litt 4b Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

one who, as a means of livelihood, performs work and labor for those who employ him. oliver v. Macon Hardware Co., 98 […]

In Indian computation, 100,000. The value of a lac of rupees is about £10,000 sterling, wharton Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In old practice. To tamper with a Jury: to endeavor to Influence them in thelr verdict, or their verdict gen-erally Source: Black’s […]

Au nncient writ against persons who refused to serve and do labor, and who had no means of living; or against such […]

In old records, watery land Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

1. work; toil; service. Con-tlnued exertion, of the more onerous and Inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of […]

In old records. A net, gin, or snare Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Anything appended to a larger writing, as a codicil; a narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writ, […]

and LL.D. Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three aca-deroic degrees in law,—bachelor, master, and doctor of laws Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]