Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

UBERA PISCARIA

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LIBERTIES

distinguished from such men as have lost the benefit and protection of the law in conse quence of crime. Hence this term denoted the status of a man who stood guiltless be fore the law, and was free, in the sense of be ing entitled to its full protection and benefit. Amittere liberam legem (to lose one's free law) was to fall from that status by crime or infamy. See Co. Litt. 946. UBERA PISCARIA. In old English law. A free fishery. Co. Litt. 122a. IiIBEBA WARRENA. In old English law. Free warren, {q. v.) LIBERAM LEGEM AMITTERE. To lose one's free law, (called the villainous judg ment,) to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chat tels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted, houses razed, trees rooted up, and one's body committed to prison. It was an ciently pronounced against conspirators, but is now disused, the punishment substituted being fine and imprisonment. Hawk. F. C. 61, & lxxii., s. 9; 3 Inst. 221. LIBERARE. In the civil law. To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liber ty. Calvin. . In old English law. To deliver, trans fer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels of jurors, etc. Bract, fobs. 116, 1766. Liberata peounia non liberat offer entem. Co. Litt. 207. Money being re stored does not set free the party offering. LIBERATE. In old English practice. An original writ issuing out of chancery to the treasurer, chamberlains, and barons of the exchequer, for the payment of any annual pension, or other sum. Reg. Orig. 193; Cowell. A writ issued to a sheriff, for the delivery of any lands or goods taken upon forfeits of recognizance. 4 Coke, 646. A writ issued to a gaoler, for the delivery of a prisoner that had put in bail for his ap pearance. Cowell. LIBEBATIO. In old English law. Livery; money paid tor the deliver/ or use of a thing. In old Sootoh law. Livery; a fee given to a servant or officer. Skene. Money, meat, drink, clothes, etc., yearly given and delivered by the lord to his do mestic servants. Blount. LIBERATION. In the civil law. The •extinguishment of a contract, by which he

who was bound becomes free or liberated. Wolff, Inst. Nat. § 749. Synonymous with "payment." Dig. 50, 16, 47. LIBERI. In Saxon law. Freemen; the possessors of allodial lands. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5. In the civil law. Children. The term included "grandchildren." LIBERTAS. Liberty; freedom; a privi lege; a franchise. LIBERTAS ECCLESIASTIC A. Church liberty, or ecclesiastical immunity. Libertas est naturalis faoultas ejus qnod cuique facere libet, nisi quod de jure aut vi prohibetur. Co. Litt. 116. Liberty is that natural faculty which permits every one to do anything he pleases except that which is restrained by law or force. Libertas inestimabilis res est. Lib erty is an inestimable thing; a thing above price. Dig. 50, 17, 106. Libertas non recipit eostimationem. Freedom does not admit of valuation. Brack fol. 14. Libertas omnibus rebus favorabilior est. Liberty is more favored than all things, [anything.] Dig. 50, 17, 122. Libertates regales ad coronam speo tantes ex concessione regum a coronft exierunt. 2 Inst. 496. Royal franchises relating to the crown have emanated from the crown by grant of kings. LIBERTATIBUS ALLOCANDIS. A writ lying for a citizen or burgess, implead ed contrary to his liberty, to have his privi lege allowed. Reg. Orig. 262. LIBERTATIBUS EXIGENDIS IN ITINERE. An ancient writ whereby the king commanded the justices in eyre to ad mit of an attorney for the defense of anoth er's liberty. Reg. Orig. 19. LIBERTI, LIBERTINI. In Roman law. Freedmen. There seems to have been some difference in the use of these two words; the former denoting the manumitted slaves considered in their relations with their for mer master* who was now called their "pa tron;" the latter term describing the status of the same persons in the general social economy of Rome. LIBERTICIDE. A destroyer of liberty. LIBERTIES. Privileged districts ex empt from the sheriff's jurisdiction.

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