Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

L^ETERE JERUSALEM

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LAND

the fact that a river swells out into broad, pond-like sheets, with a current, does not make tbat a lake which would otherwise be a river. 14 N. H. 477. LAMANEUR. Fr. In French marine law. A pilot. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 3. LAMB. A sheep, ram, or ewe under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216. LAMBARD'S ARCHAIONOMIA. A work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo Saxon laws, those of William the Conqueror, and of Henry I. LAMBARD'S EIRENARCHA. A work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599. LAMBETH DEGREE. In English law. A degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in prejudice of the universities. 3 Steph. Comm. 65; 1 Bl. Comm. 381. LAME DUCK. A cant term on the stock exchange for a person unable to meet his engagements. LAMMAS DAY. The 1st of August. It is one of the Scotch quarter days, and is what is called a "conventional term." LAMMAS LANDS. Lands over which there is aright of pasturage by persons other than the owner from about Lammas, or reap ing time, until sowing time. Wharton. LANA. Lat. In the civil law. Wool. See Dig. 32, 60, 70, 88. LANCASTER. A county of England, erected into a county palatine in the reign of Edward III., but now vested in the crown. LANCETI. In feudal law. Vassals who were obliged to work for their lord one day in the week, from Michaelmas to autumn, either with fork, spade, or flail, at the lord's option. Spelman. LAND, in the most general sense, compre hends any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever; as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furzes, and heath. Co. Litt. 4a. The word "land" includes not only the soil, but everything attached to it, whether attached by the course of nature, as trees, herbage, and water, or by the hand of man, as buildings and fences. 1 N. Y. 572; 2 Bl. Comm. 16,17. Land is the solid material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed.

LJETERE JERUSALEM. Easter of ferings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also denominated " quadragesimalia." Whar ton. LiETHE, or LATHE. A division or district peculiar to the county of Kent. Spel man. LAFORDSWIC. In Saxon law. A be traying of one's lord or master. LAGA. L. Lat., from the Saxon u lag. n Law; a law. LAGAN. See LIGAN. LAGE DAY. In old English law. A law day; a time of open court; the day of the county court; a juridical day. LAGE-MAN. A lawful man; a good and lawful man. A juror. Cowell. LAGENA. L. Lat. In old English law. A measure of ale. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 11. Said to consist of six sextaries. Cowell. LAGU. In old English law. Law; also used to express the territory or district in which a particular law was in force, as Dena lagu, Mercna lagu, etc. LAHLSLIT. A breach of law. CowelL A mulct for an offense, viz., twelve "ores." LAHMAN, or LAGEMANNUS. An old word for a lawyer. Domesday, I. 189. L AIA. A roadway in a wood. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 483. LAICUS. A layman. One who is not In holy orders, or not engaged in the minis try of religion. LAIRWITE, or LAIRESITE. A fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of some manors. 4 Inst. 206. LAIS GENTS. L. Fr. Lay people; a jury. LAITY. In English law. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, in cluding all the nation, except the clergy, the army, and navy, and subdivided into the no bility and the commonalty; (2) military; (3) maritime, consisting of the navy. Wharton. LAKE. A large body of water, contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. "Webster. The fact that there is a current from a ofgher to a lower level does not make that a river which would otherwise be a lake; and

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