Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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LOCOCESSION

LODS ET VENTES

LOCOCESSION. The act of giving place. LOCULUS. In old records. A coffin; a purse. LOCUM TENENS. Lat. Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieutenant, or representative. LOCUPLES. Lat. In the civil law. Able to respond in an action; good for the amount which the plaintiff might recover. Dig. 50, 16, 234, 1. LOCUS. Lat. A place; the place where ftthing is done. LOCUS CONTRACTUS. The place of i contract; the place where a contract is made. LOCUS CBIMINIS. The locality of a crime; the place where a crime was commit ted. LOCUS DELICTI. The place of the of fense; the place where an offense was com mitted. 2 Kent, Comm. 109. LOCUS IN QUO. The place in which. The place in which the cause of action arose, or where anything is alleged, in pleadings, to have been done. The phrase is most fre quently used in actions of trespass quare clausum fregit. LOCUS PARTITUS. In old English law. A place divided. A division made be tween two towns or counties to make out in which the land or place in question lies. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 15, § 1; Cowell. LOCUS PCENITENTLSl. A place for repentance; an opportunity for changing one's mind; a chance to withdraw from a contemplated bargain or contract before it Jesuits in a definite contractual liability. Also used of a chance afforded to a person, by the circumstances, of relinquishing the in tention which he has formed to commit a crime, before the perpetration thereof. Locus pro solutione reditus aut pecu nice secundum conditionem dimissionis aut obligationis est stricte observandus. 4 Coke, 73. The place for the payment of rent or money, according to the condition of a lease or bond, is to be strictly observed. LOCUS PUBLICUS. In the civil law. A public place. Dig. 43, 8, 1; Id. 43, 8, 2,8. LOCUS REGIT ACTUM. In private "nternational law. The rule that, when a

legal transaction complies with the formali ties required by the law of the country where it is done, it is also valid in the country where it is to be given effect, although by the law of that country other formalities are re quired. 8 Sav. Syst. § 381: Westl. Priv. Int. Law, 159. LOCUS REI SITiE. The place where a thing is situated. In proceedings in rem t or the real actions of the civil law, the proper forum is the locus rei sites. 2 Gall. 191,197. LOCUS SIGILLI. The place of the seal; the place occupied by the seal of written instruments. Usually abbreviated to "L. S." LOCUS STANDI. A place of standing; standing in court. A right of appearance in a court of justice, or before a legislative body, on a given question. LODE. This term, as used in the legis lation of congress, is applicable to any zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes all deposits of mineral matter found through a mineral ized zone or belt coming from the same source, impressed with the same forms, and appear ing to have been created by the same pro cesses. 4 Sawy. 312. LODEMAN, or LOADSMAN. The pilot conducts the ship up the river or into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, alter be ing brought thither by the pilot, to the quay or place of discharge. Jacob. LODEMANAGE. The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from one place to an other. Cowell. LODGER. One who occupies hired apartments in another's house; a tenant of part of another's house. A tenant, with the right of exclusive pos session of a part of a house, the landlord, by himself or an agent, retaining general domin ion over the house itself. LODGINGS. Habitation in another's house; apartments in another's house, fur nished or unfurnished, occupied for habita tion; the occupier being termed a "lodger." LODS ET VENTES. In old French and Canadian law. A fine payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation fine. Steph. Lect. 351.

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