Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LAWFUL MAN

695

LAZARET

of the country, even though it be contraband of war; for a neutral has a right to carry such goods at his own risk. 1 Johns. Cas. 1; 2 Johns. Cas. 77; Id. 120. LAWFUL MAN. A freeman, unat tainted. and capable of bearing oath; a l»- ffalia homo. LAWFUL MONEY. Money which is a legal tender in payment of debts; e. g., gold and silver coined at the mint. LAWING OF DOGS. The cutting sev eral claws of the forefeet of dogs in the for est, to prevent their running at deer. LAWLESS COURT. An ancient local English court, said to have been held in Es sex once a year, at cock-crowing, without a light or pen and ink, and conducted in a whisper. Jacob. LAWLESS MAN. An outlaw. LAWNDE, LOWNDE. In old English law. A plain between woods. Co. Litt. 56. LAWS OF OLERON. A maritime code said to have been drawn up by Richard I. at the Isle of Oleron, whence its name. These laws are constantly quoted in proceed ings before the admiralty courts, as are also the Rhodian laws. Co. Litt. 11. LAWS OF WAR. This term denotes a branch of public international law, and com prises the body of rules and principles ob served by civilized nations for the regulation of matters inherent in, or incidental to, the conduct of a public war; such, for example, as the relations of neutrals and belligerents, blockades, captures, prizes, truces and ar mistices, capitulations, prisoners, and dec larations of war and peace. LAWSUIT. A vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depend ing between two private persons in the courts of law. LAWYER. A person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel, or solicitor. Any person who, for fee or reward, prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record or other ju dicial tribunals of the United States, or of any of the states, or whose business it is to give legal ad rice in relation to any cause or matter whatever. Act of July 18,1866, § 9, (14 St. at Large, 121.) LAY, o. To state or allege in pleading. LAY, adj. Relating to persons or things not clerical or ecclesiastical; a person not in ecclesiastical orders. Also non-professional.

LAY, n. A share of the profits of a fish* ing or whaling voyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages. 3 Story, 108. LAY CORPORATION. A corporation composed of lay persons or for lay purposes. They are either civil or eleemosynary. Ang. & A. Corp. 28-30; 1 Bl. Comm. 470. LAY DAMAGES. To state at the con clusion of the declaration the amount of damages which the plaintiff claims. LAY DAYS. In the law of shipping. Days allowed in charter-parties for loading and unloading the cargo. 3 Kent, Comm. 202, 203. LAY FEE. A fee held by ordinary feud al tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesi astical tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II., which abolished military ten ures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101. LAY IMPROPRIATOR. In English ecclesiastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72. LAY INVESTITURE. In ecclesiasti cal law. The ceremony of putting a bishop in possession of the temporalities of his diocese. LAY OUT. This term has come to be used technically in highway laws as embrac ing all the series of acts necessary to the com plete establishment of a highway. 23 Conn. 375. LAY PEOPLE. Jurymen. LAYE. Law. LAYING THE VENUE. Stating in the margin of a declaration the county in which the plaintiff proposes that the trial of the action shall take place. LAYMAN. One of the people, and not one of the clergy; one who is not of the legal profession; one who is not of a particular profession. LAYSTALL. A place for dung or soil. LAZARET, or LAZARETTO. A pest house, or public hospital for persons affected with the more dangerous forms of contagious diseases; a quarantine station for vessels coming from countries where such diseases are prevalent.

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