Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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LEGAL INTEREST

LEGATOB

An administrator has no right until letters are issued to him. Therefore he cannot ben efit (as respects the time before obtaining let ters) by a saving clause in a statute of lim itations in favor of persons under a legal in capacity to sue. 1 Boot, 187. LEGAL INTEREST. That rate of in terest prescribed by the laws of the particular state or country as the highest which may be lawfully contracted for or exacted, and which must be paid in all cases where the law al lows interest without the assent of the debtor. LEGAL IRREGULARITY. An irreg ularity occurring in the course of some legal proceeding. A defect or informality which, in the technical view of the law, is to be ac counted an irregularity. LEGAL MALICE. An expression used as the equivalent of "constructive malice," or "malice in law." 52 Me. 502. LEGAL MEMORY. See MEMORY. LEGAL MORTGAGE. A term used in Louisiana. The law alone in certain cases gives to the creditor a mortgage on the prop erty of his debtor, without it being requisite that the parties should stipulate it. This is called "legal mortgage." Civil Code La. art. 8311. LEGAL NOTICE. Such notice as is ade quate in point of law; such notice as the law requires to be given for the specific purpose or in the particular case. LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE. Aper son who, in the law, represents the person and controls the rights of another. The phrase is commonly used as the equivalent of "executor" or "administrator." The term imports a higher authority than "agent,"for an agent acts for his principal, who retains the beneficial right; but the legal repre sentative succeeds to the place of the former owner, and is vested with his title. LEGAL REVERSION. In Scotch law. The period within which a proprietor is at liberty to redeem land adjudged from him for debt. LEGAL TENDER. That kind of coin, money, or circulating medium which the law compels a creditor to accept in payment of his debt, when tendered by the debtor in the right amount. LEGALISHOMO. Lat. A lawful man; a person who stands rectus in curia; a person not outlawed, excommunicated, or infamous.

It occurs In the phrase, "probi et legates homines, " (good and lawful men, competent jurors,) and "legality" designates the condi tion of such a man. Jacob. LEGALIS MONETA ANGLIJE. Law ful money of England. 1 Inst. 207. LEGALITY, or LEGALNES3. Law fulness. LEGALIZATION. The act of legaliz ing or making legal or lawful. See LEGAL IZE. LEGALIZE. To make legal or lawful; to confirm or validate what was before void or unlawful; to add the sanction and author ity of law to that which before was without or against law. LEGALLY. Lawfully; according to law. LEGANTINE CONSTITUTIONS. The name of a code of ecclesiastical laws, en acted in national synods, held under legates from Pope Gregory IX. and Clement IV., in the reign of Henry III., about the years 1220 and 1263. 1 Bl. Comm. 83. LEGARE. Lat. In the civil and old English law. To bequeath; to leave or give by will; to give in anticipation of death. In Scotch phrase, to legate. LEGATARIUS. Lat. In the civil law. One to whom a thing is bequeathed; a legatee or legatary. Inst. 2, 20, 2, 4, 5, 10; Bract, fol. 40. In old European law. A legate, mes senger, or envoy. Spelman. LEGATEE. The person to whom a leg acy is given. LEGATES. Nuncios, deputies, or ex traordinary ambassadors sent by the pope to be his representatives and to exercise his ju risdiction in countries where the Boman Cath olic Church is established by law. LEGATION. An embassy; a diplomatic minister and his suite; the persons commis sioned by one government to exercise diplo matic functions at the court of another, in cluding the minister, secretaries, attaches, interpreters, etc., are collectively styled the "legation" of their government. The word also denotes the official residence of a foreign minister. LEGATOR. One who makes a will, and leaves legacies.

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