Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LIBERUM SOCAGIUM 717

LICENSEE

materia. Under the name of books are con tained all volumes, whether upon paper, or paichment, or any other material. Dig. 32, 52, pr. LICENCIADO. In Spanish law. An attorney or advocate; particularly, a person admitted to the degree of "Licentiate in Ju risprudence" by any of the literary universi ties of Spain, and who is thereby authorized to practice in all the courts. Escriche. LICENSE. In the law of contracts. A permission, accorded by a competent au thority, conferring the right to do some act which without such authorization would be illegal, or would be a trespass or a tort. Also the written evidence of such permission. In real property law. An authority to do a particular act or series of acts upon an other's land without possessing any estate therein. Also the written evidence of au thority so accorded. It is distinguished from an "easement, n which implies an interest in the land to be affected, and a "lease," or right to take the profits of land. It may be, however, and often is, coupled with a grant of some interest in the land itself, or right to take the profits. 1 Washb. Real Prop. *398. In pleading. A plea of justification to an action of trespass that the defendant was authorized by the owner of the freehold to commit the trespass complained of. In the law of patents. A written au thority granted by the owner of a patent to another person empowering the latter to make or use the patented article for a limited period or in a limited territory. In international law. Permission granted by a belligerent state to its own sub jects, or to the subjects of the enemy, to car ry on a trade interdicted by war. Wheat. Int. Law, 447. Marriage license. A marriage license is an authority enabling two persons to be mar ried. LICENSED VICTUALLER. A term applied, in England, to all persons selling any kind of intoxicating liquor under a license from the justices of the peace. Wharton. LICENSEE. A person to whom a license has been granted. In patent law. One who has had trans ferred to him, either in writing or orally, a less or different interest than either the in terest in the whole patent, or an undivided part of such whole interest, or an exclusive sectional interest. 4 Blatchf. 211.

LIBERUM SOCAGIUM. In old En glish law. Free socage. Bract, fol. 207; 2 Bl. Comm. 61, 62. LIBERUM TENEMENTUM. In real law. Freehold. Frank-tenement. In pleading. A plea of freehold. A plea by the defendant in an action of trespass to real property that the locus in quo is his free hold, or that of a third person, under whom be acted. 1 Tidd, Pr. 645. LIBLAC. In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particularly that kind which consisted in the compounding and administering of drugs and philter. HBLACUM. In Saxon law. Bewitch ug any person; also a barbarous sacrifice. LIBRA. In old English law. A pound; al a SUM of money equal to a pound ster ling LI3.RA ABSA. In old English law. A pound birned; that is, melted, or assayed by melting, to test its purity. Libra arses et pensata; pounds burned and weighed. A frequent expression in Domesday, to denote the purer coin in which rents were paid. Spelraan; Cowell. LIBRA NUMERATA. A pound of money counted instead of being weighed. Bpelman. LIBRA PENSA. A pound of money by freight. It was usual in former days not only to sell the money, but to weigh it; because many cities, lords, and bishops, having their mints, coined money, and often very bad money, too, for which reason, though the pound consisted of 20 shillings, they weighed it. Enc. Lond. LIBRARIUS. In Roman law. A writ er or amanuensis; a copyist. Dig. 50, 17, 92. LIB RAT A TERRJE. A portion of ground containing four oxgangs, and every •xgang fourteen acres. Cowell. This is the same with what in Scotland was called "poundland" of old extent. Wharton. LIB RIPENS. In Roman law. A weigher or balance-holder. The person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancipation per ces et libram. Inst. 2, 10,1. Librorum appellatione continentur omnia volumina, give in charta, sive in membrana sint, sive in quavis alia

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