Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LABORERS, STATUTES OF 683 Is one who performs, with his own hands, the con tract which he makes with his employer. 83 Pa. St. 469. LABORERS, STATUTES OF. In En glish law. These are the statutes 23 Edw. in., 12 Rich. II., 5 Eliz. c. 4, and 26 & 27 Viet. c. 125, making various regulations as to laborers, servants, apprentices, etc. LAC, LAK. In Indian computation, 100,000. The value of a lac of rupees is about £10,000 sterling. Wharton. LACE. A measure of land equal to one pole. This term is widely used in Cornwall. LACERTA. In old English law. A fathom. Co. Litt. 46. LACHES. Negligence, consisting in the omission of something which a party might do, and might reasonably be expected to do, towards the vindication or enforcement of his rights. The word is generally the syno nym of "remissness," "dilatoriness," "un reasonable or unexcused delay," the op posite of "vigilance," and means a want of activity and diligence in making a claim or moving for the enforcement of a right (par ticularly in equity) which will afford ground for presuming against it, or for refusing re lief, where that is discretionary with the court. LACTA. L. Lat. In old English law. Defect in the weight jof money; lack of weight. This word and the verb "lactare" are used in an assise or statute of the sixth year of King John. Spelman. LACUNA. In old records. A ditch or dyke; a furrow for a drain; a gap or blank in writing. LACUS. In the civil law. A lake; a receptacle of water which is never dry. Dig. 43, 14, 1, 3. In old English law. Allay or alloy of silver with base metal. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, §6. LADA. In Saxon law. A purgation, or mode of trial by which one purged himself of an accusation; as by oath or ordeal. Spel man. A water-course; a trench or canal for draining marshy grounds. In old English, a lade or load. Spelman. In old English law. A court of justice; a lade or lath. Co well. LADE, or LODE. Themouth of a river. LADEN IN BULK. A term of mari time law, applied to a vessel which is freight

ed with a cargo which is neither in casks, boxes, bales, nor cases, but lies loose in the hold, being defended from wet or moisture by a number of mats and a quantity of dun nage. Cargoes of corn, salt, etc., are usually so shipped. LADY. In English law. The title be longing to the wife of a peer, and (by court esy) the wife of a baronet or knight, and also to any woman, married or sole, whose father was a nobleman of a rank not lower than that of earl. LADY-COURT. In English law. The court of a lady of the manor. LADY DAY. The 25th of March, the feast of the Annunication of the Blessed Vir gin Mary. In parts of Ireland, however, they so designate the 15th of August, the festival of the Assumption of the Virgin. LADY'S FRIEND. The style of an of ficer of the English house of commons, whose duty was to secure a suitable provision for the wife, when her husband sought a divorce by special act of parliament. The act of 1857 abolished parliamentary divorces, and this office with them. L.S1SA MAJESTAS. Lat. Leze-majes ty, or injured majesty; high treason. It is a phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any offense against the king's person or dignity. L M SI O ULTRA DIMIDIUM VEL ENORMIS. In Eoman law. The injury sustained by one of the parties to an onerous contract when he had been overreached by the other to the extent of more than one-half of the value of the subject-matter; e. g. t when a vendor had not received half the value of property sold, or the purchaser had paid more than double value. Colq. Rom. Civil Law, §2094. LiESIONE FIDEI, SUITS PRO. Suite in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual of fenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, .or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity was checked by the constitu tions of Clarendon, A. D. 1164. 3 Bl. Comm. 52. L.SSIWERP. A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing given or delivered. Spelman. LJET. In old English law. One of a class between servile and free. Palgrave, i. 354.

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