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A keeper or warden of a pris* on or jail Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Engllsh and feudal law. Leg-armor. Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

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

A throwing goods overboard to llghten or save the vessel, in whlch case the goods so sacrificed are a proper subject for […]

A gaol; a prison; a building designated by law, or regularly used, for the confinement of persons held in lawful cus-tody. State […]

Lost by default; tossed away. CowelL Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the clvll law. A throw-lng of goods overboard in a storm; jettison. Loss from such a cause. Calvin Source: Black’s Law […]

A gold coin worth 24s., so called from James I., who was king when it was struck. Enc. Lond Source: Black’s Law […]

A false boasting; a false clalm; assertions repeated to the preju-dlce of another’s rlght The species of defamation or disparagement of another’s […]

Lat. In old English law. It lies in the mouth. Fleta, lib. 5, c. S, 8 49 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

A kind of defensive coat-armor worn by horsemen in war; not made of solid iron, but of many plates fastened together. Some […]

Eyres, or circuits. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 62 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Lying in abeyance, as In the phrase “heereditas jacens,” which is an inheritance or estate lying vacant or in abeyance prior […]

est jns enndl, ambnlandi bominis | non etiam Jnmentum agendi vol vobien-lnm. A way is the right of going or walking, and […]

Lat Repetition. In the Roman law, a bonitary owner might liberate a slave, and the quirltary owner’s repetition (iteraiio) of the process […]

Also; likewise; again. This word was formerly used to mark the beginning of a new paragraph or division after the first, whence […]

Lat in tbe oivil law. A way; a right of way belonging as a servitude to an estate in the country, (preedium […]

Lat. In old praotioe. So that. Formal words in writs. Ita quod habeas corpus, so that you have the body. 2 Mod. […]

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

Lat So it is; so it stands. In modern civil law, this phrase is a form of attestation added to exemplifications from […]

Lat So the law is written. Dig. 40, 9, 12. The law must be obeyed notwithstanding the apparent rigor of Its application. […]

In practice. Leading to or producing an Issue; relating to an Issue or issues. See Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 433 Source: […]

In English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite […]

A piece of land surrounded by water, webber v. Pere Marquette Boom Co., 62 Mich. 626, 30 N. W. 469; Goff v. […]