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In admiralty practice. The general Issue. 2 Browne, Civil & Adm. Law, 358, and note. LITIS DOMINIUM. In the civil law. Ownership, control, or direction of a suit. A fiction of law by which the employment of an attorney or proctor (procurator) in a suit was authorized or justified, he being supposed to become, by the appointment of his princi pal (dominus) or client, the dominus litis. Heinecc. Elera. lib. 4, tit. 10, §§ 1246, 1247. Litis nomen omnem actionem sig nificat, sive in rem, sive in personam sit. Co. Litt. 292. A lawsuit signifies every action, whether it be in rem or in personam. LITISPENDENCE. An obsolete term for the time during which a lawsuit is going on. LITISPENDENCIA. In Spanish law. Litispendency. The condition of a suit pend ing in a court of justice. LITHE. Fr. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 Amer ican pints, or 1.76 English pints. Webster. LITTORAL. Belonging to the shore; as of seas and great lakes. Webster. Corre sponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. But "riparian" is also used co-ex tensively with "littoral." 7 Cush. 94. See 17 How. 426. LITURA. In the civil law. An obliter ation or blot in a will or other instrument. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1. LITTJS. In old European law. A kind of servant; one who surrendered himself in to another's power. Spelman. In the civil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea; the coast Litus est quousqu© maximus ftuctus a mari pervenit. The shore is where the highest wave from the sea has reached. Dig. 50, 16, 96. Ang. Tide-Waters, 67. LITUS MAKIS. The sea-shore. "It is certain that that which the sea overflows, either at high spring tides or at extraordina ry tides, comes not, as to this purpose, under the denomination of ' litus maris, 1 and con sequently the king's title is not of that large extent, but only to land that is usually over flowed at ordinary tides. That, therefore, I call the ' $hore ' that is between the common

high-water and low-water mark, and no more." Hale de Jure Mar. c. 4. LIVELODE. Maintenance; support. LIVERY. 1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king's ten ants in capite or tenants by knight's service. 2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward in chivalry, on reaching his majority, to ob tain delivery of the possession of his lands out of the hands of the guardian. 2 BL Comm. 68. 3. A particular dress or garb appropriate or peculiar to certain persons, as the members of a guild, or, more particularly, the servants of a nobleman or gentleman. 4. The privilege of a particular guild or company of persons, the members thereof being called "livery-men." 5. A contract of hiring of work-beasts, par ticularly horses, to the use of the hirer. It is seldom used alone in this sense, but ap pears in the compound, "livery-stable." LIVERY IN CHIVALRY. In feudal law. The delivery of the lands of a ward in chivalry out of the guardian's hands, upon the heir's attaining the requisite age,—twen ty-one for males, sixteen for females. 2 Bl. Comm. 68. LIVERY-MAN. A member of some company in the city of London; also called a "freeman." LIVERY OF SEISIN. The appropri ate ceremony, at common law, for trans ferring the corporal possession of lands or tenements by a grantor to his grantee. It was livery in deed w here the parties went together upon the land, and there a twig, clod, key, or other symbol was delivered in the name of the whole. Livery in law was where the same ceremony was performed, not upon the land itself, but in sight of it. 2 BL Comm. 315, 316. LIVERY-OFFICE. An oflice appointed for the delivery of lands. LIVERY STABLE KEEPER. One whose business it is to keep horses for hire or to let, or to keep, feed, or board horses for others. LIVRE TOURNOIS. In common law. A coin used in France before the Revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, etc., at eighteen and a half cents. Act March 2,1798, § 61; 1 Story, Laws, 629.

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