Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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were the customary law of aH the prov inces, the canon law as there administered, and (chiefly) the Roman law. This work has always been regarded as of the highest authority in Spain and in those countries and states which have derived their jurispru dence from Spain. LASCAR. A native Indian sailor; the term is also applied to tent pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and others. LASCIVIOUS CARRIAGE. In Con necticut. A term including those wanton acts between persons of different sexes that flow from the exercise of lustful passions, and which are not otherwise punished as crimes against chastity and public decency. 2 Swift, Dig. 343. It includes, also, inde cent acts by one against the will of another. 5 Day, 81. LASHITE, or LASHLITE. A kind of forfeiture during the government of the Danes in England. Enc. Lond. LAST, in old English law, signifies a burden; also a measure of weight used for certain commodities of the bulkier sort. LAST COURT. A court held by the twenty-four jurats in the marshes of Kent, and summoned by the bailiffs, whereby or ders were made to lay and levy taxes, impose penalties, etc., for the preservation of the said marshes. Enc. Lond. LAST HEIR. In English law. He to whom lands come by escheat for want of lawful heirs; that is, in some cases, the lord of whom the lands were held; in others, the sovereign. Cowell. LAST RESORT. A court from which there is no appeal is called the "court of last resort." LAST SICKNESS. That illness of which a person dies is so called. LAST WILL. This term, according to Lord Coke, is most commonly used where lands and tenements are devised, and "testa ment" where it concerns chattels. Co. Litt. Ilia. Both terms, however, are now gen erally employed in drawing a will either of lands or chattels. LASTAGE. A custom exacted in some fairs and markets to carry things bought whither one will. But it is more accurately taken for the ballast or lading of a ship. Also custom paid for wares sold by the last, as herrings, pitch, etc. Wharton.

which the decisions are not harmonious. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, §§ 757, 758. Larceny is the taking of personal property, ac complished by fraud or stealth, and wiin intent to deprive another thereof. Pen. Code Dak. § 580. Larceny is the felonious stealing, taking, cany ing, leading, or driving away the personal property of another. Pen. Code CaL § 484. Larceny is sometimes divided into "simple" and "compound" or "mixed" larceny; the former term applying to cases of simple theft; the latter to cases of stealing attended with some recognized circumstances of aggrava tion, such as larceny from a ship or wharf, or from a dwelling-house in the day-time, or from the person. Larceny was also divided into "grand" and "petit" larceny, the distinction turning on an arbitrary division of the value of the goods stolen. This division is now abolished in England (7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 29, § 2) and in many of the United States, but still subsists in some jurisdictions. For the distinction between "larceny" and "burglary," "extortion," "false pretenses," and "robbery," see those titles. LABCENY BY BAILEE. In Pennsyl vania law. The crime of larceny committed where "any person, being a bailee of any property, shall fraudulently take or convert the same to his own use, or to the use of any other person except the owner thereof, al though he shall not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment." Brightly's Purd. Dig. p. 436, § 177. LARDARIUS REGIS. Theking's lard erer, or clerk of the kitchen. Cowell. LARDING MONEY. In the manor of Bradford, in Wilts, the tenants pay to their lord a small yearly rent by this name, which is said to be for liberty to feed their hogs with the masts of the lord's wood, the fat of a hog being called "lard;" or it may be a commuta tion for some customary service of carrying salt or meat to the lord's larder. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 321. LARGE. L.Fr. Broad; the opposite of "estreyte, " strait or strict. Purea et larges. Britt. c. 34. LARONS. In old English law. Thieves. LAS FARTIDAS. In Spanish law. The name of a code of laws, more fully de scribed as "Las Siete Partidas," ("the sev en parts," from the number of its divisions,) which was compiled under the direction of Alphonso X., about the year 1250. Its sources

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