Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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in the county. 3 Bl. Comra. 286. Abolished by St. 2 Wm. IV. c. 89. LATITATIO. In the civil law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Big. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract, fol. 126. LATOR. A bearer; a messenger. LATRO. In the civil and old English law. A robber. Dig. 50, 16, 118; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 1. A thief. LATROCTNATION. The act of rob bing; a depredation. LATROCINIUM. The prerogative of adjudging and executing thieves; also larceny; theft; a thing stolen. LATROCTNY. Larceny. LATTER-MATH. A second mowing; the aftermath. LAUDARE. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one's title or authority. Calvin. In feudal law. To determine or pass upon judicially. Laudamentum, the finding or award of a jurj* 2 Bl. Comm. 285. LAUDATIO. In Roman law. Testi mony delivered in court concerning an ac cused person's good behavior and integrity of life. It resembled the practice which pre vails in our trials of calling persons to speak to a prisoner's character. The least number of the laudatore* among the Romans was ten. Wharton. LAUDATOR. An arbitrator; a witness to character. LAUDEMEO. In Spanish law. The tax paid by the possessor of land held by quit-rent or emphyteusis to the owner of the estate, when the tenant alienates his right in the property. Escriche. LAUDEMIUM. In the civil law. A sum paid by a new emphyteuta (q. v.) who acquires the emphyteusis, not as heir, but as a singular successor, whether by gift, devise, exchange, or sale. It was a sum equal to the fiftieth part of the purchase money, paid to the dominus or proprietor for his accept ance of the new emphyteuta. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 328. Called, in old English law, "acknowledgment money." Cowell. LAUDUM. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law. Sentence or judg ment; dome or doom. 1 Fitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8.

LAUGHE. Frank-pledge. 2Reeve,Eng. Law, 17. LAUNCEGAY. A kind of offensive weapon, now disused, and prohibited by 7 Rich. II. c. 13. LAUNCH. 1. The act of launching a vessel; the movement of a vessel from the land into the water, especially the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. 2. A boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; an open boat of large size used in any service; a lighter. LAUREATE. In English law. An of ficer of the household of the sovereign, whose business formerly consisted only in compos ing an ode annually, on the sovereign's birth day, and on the new year; sometimes also, though rarely, on occasion of any remark able victory. LAURELS. Pieces of gold, coined in 1619, with the king's head laureated; hence the name. LAUS DEO. Lat. Praise be to God. An old heading to bills of exchange. LAVATORIUM. A laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest and other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they proceeded to divine service. LAVOR NUEVA. In Spanish law. A new work. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32,1. 1. LAW. 1. That which is laid down, or dained, or established. A rule or method accoiding to which phenomena or actions co exist or follow each other. 2. A system of piinciples and rules of hu man conduct, being the aggregate of those commandments and principles which are either prescribed or recognized by the gov erning power in an organized jural society as its will in relation to the conduct of the mem bers of such society, and which it undertakes to maintain and sanction and to use as the criteria of the actions of such members. "Law" is a solemn expression of legislative wilL It orders and permits and forbids. It announces rewards and punishments. Its provisions gener ally relate not to solitary or singular cases, but to what passes in the ordinary course of affairs. Civil Code La. arts 1, 2 "Law," without an article, properly implies a tcience or system of principles or rules of human conduct, answering to the Latin u Jus; n as when it is spoken of as a subject of study or practice. In this sense, it includes the decisions of courts of justice, as well as acts of the legislature. The

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