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demonstrant, a lawful son and heir is he whom the marriage points out to be lawful. Bract, fol. 63. LEGO. Lat. In Roman law. I be queath. A common term in wills. Dig. 30, 86, 81, et seq. LEGBUITA. In old records. A fine for criminal conversation with a woman. LEGULEIUS. A person skilled in law, {in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forms of law. Calvin. LEIDGBAVE. An officer under the Saxon government, who had jurisdiction over a lath. Enc. Lond. See LATH. LEIPA. In old English law. A fugitive or runaway. LENDER. He from whom a thing is borrowed. The bailor of an article loaned. LENT. The quadragesimal fast; a time of abstinence; the time from Ash-Wednes day to Easter. LEOD. People; a people; a nation. Spelman. LEODES. In old European law. A vassal, or liege man; service; a were or were gild. Spelman. LEOHT-GESCEOT. A tax for supply ing the church with lights. Anc. Inst. Eng. LEONINA SOCIETAS. Lat. An at tempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits. This was a void partnership in Ro man law; and, apparently, it would also be void as a partnership in English law, as be ing mheiently inconsistent with the notion of partnership. (Dig. 17, 2, 29, 2.) Brown. LEP AND LACE. A custom in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which goes over Greenbury within that manor (except it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to the lord. Blount. LEPORABIUS. A greyhound. Cowell. LEPORIUM. A place where bares are kept. Mon. Angl. t. 2, p. 1035. LEPROSO AMOVENDO. An ancient writ that lay to remove a leper or lazar, who thrust himself into the company of his neigh bors in any parish, either in the church or at other public meetings, to their annoyance. Beg. Orig. 237.

LESCHEWES. Trees fallen by chance or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 341. LESE MAJESTY. The old English and Scotch translation of "Icesa majestas," or high treason. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6. LESION. Fr. Damage; injury; detri ment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract. Civil Code La. art. 1860. Inequality in contracts. Poth. Obi., no. 33. LESPEGEND. An inferior officer in for ests to take care of the vert and venison therein, etc. Whaiton. LESSEE. He to whom a lease is made. He who holds an estate by virtue of a lease. LESSOR. He who grants a lease. LESSOR OP THE PLAINTIFF. In the action of ejectment, this was the paity who really and in effect prosecuted the action and was interested in its result. The reason of his having been so called arose from the circumstance of the action having been car ried on in the name of a nominal plaintiff, (John Doe,) to whom the real plaintiff had granted a fictitious lease, and thus had become his lessor. LEST. Fr. In French maritime law. Ballast. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 4, art. 1. LESTAGE, LASTAGE. A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley. LESTAGEFRY. Lestage free, or ex empt from the duty of paying ballast money. Cowell. LESTAGIUM. Lastage or lestage; a duty laid on the cargo of a ship. Cowell. LESWES. Pastures. Domesday; Co. Litt. 46. A term often inserted in old deeds and conveyances. Cowell. LET, v. In conveyancing. To demise or lease. "To let and set" is an old expres sion. In practice. To deliver. "ToZettobail" is to deliver to bail on arrest. In contracts. To award to one of several persons, who have submitted proposals there for, the contract for erecting public works or doing some part of the work connected there with, or rendering some other service to government for a stipulated compensation.

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