Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

L'OBUGATION SANS CAUSE, ETC. 729

LOCALITY

ices of like character, intended to reach the reason of legislators. Code Ga. 1882, § 4486 L'obligation sans cause, ou sur une fausse cause, ou sur cause illicite, ne peut avoir aucun eflfet. An obligation without consideration, or upon a false con sideration, (which fails,) or upon unlawful consideration, cannot have any effect. Code Civil, 3, 8, 4; Chit. Cont. (11th Amer. Ed.) 25, note. LOCAL. Relating to place; expressive of place; belonging or confined to a particu lar place. Distinguished from "general," "personal," and "transitory." LOCAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. AQ act which has for its object the interest of some particular locality, as the formation of a road, the alteration of the course of a river, the formation of a public market in a par ticular district, etc. Brown. LOCAL ACTION. An action is so termed when all the principal facts on which it is founded are of a local nature; as where possession of land is to be recovered, or dam ages for an actual trespass, or for waste af fecting land, because in such case the cause of action relates to some particular locality, which usually also constitutes the venue of the action. LOCAL ALLEGIANCE. That meas ure of obedience which is due from a subject of one government to another government, within whose territory he is temporarily resi dent. LOC\L CHATTEL. A thing is local that is fixed to the freehold. Kitchin, 180. LOCAL COURTS. Courts whose juris diction is limited to a particular territory or district. The expression often signifies the courts of the state, in opposition to the United States courts. LOCAL CUSTOM. A particular or spe cial custom; one not general in its nature or observance, but confined to a particular dis trict or locality. LOCAL FREIGHT. Freight shipped from either terminus of a railroad* to a way station, or vice versa, or from one way station to another; that is, over a part of the road only. 61 Ala. 579. LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The gov ernment or administration of a particular lo cality; especially, the governmental authority of a municipal corporation, as a city or coun

ty, over its local and individual affairs, ex ercised in virtue of power delegated to it for that purpose by the general governtuent of the state or nation. LOCAL IMPROVEMENT. Bycommon usage, especially as evidenced by the prac tice of courts and text-writers, the term "lo cal improvements" is employed as signifying improvements made in a particular locality, by which the real property adjoining or near such locality is specially benefited. 22 Minn. 507. LOCAL LAW. A law which, instead of relating to and binding all persons, corpora tions, or institutions to which it may be ap plicable, within the whole territorial juris diction of the law-making power, is limited in its operation to certain districts of such territory or to certain individual persons or corporations. See GENERAL LAW. LOCAL OPTION. A privilege accorded by the legislature of a state to the several counties or other districts of'the state to de termine, each for itself, by popular vote, whether or not licenses should be issued for the sale of intoxicating liquors within such districts. LOCAL PREJUDICE. The "prejudice or local influence" which will warrant the removal of a cause from a state court to a federal couit may be either prejudice and in fluence existing against the party seeking such removal or existing in favor of his ad versary. 31 Fed. Rep. 53. LOCAL STATUTE. Such a statute as has for its object the interest of some par ticular locality, as the formation of a toad, the alteration of the course of a river, the formation of a public market in a particular district, etc. LOCAL TAXES. Those assessments which are limited to certain districts, as poor-rates, parochial taxes, county rates, mu nicipal taxes, etc. LOCAL VENUE. In pleading. A venue which must be laid in a particular county. When the action could have arisen only in a particular county, it is local, and the venue must be laid in that county. 1 Tidd, Pr. 427. LOCALITY. In Scotch law. This name is given to a life-rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life-rent of tierce,. 1 Bell, Comm. 55.

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