Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LOPWOOD

LOG-BOOK

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LOMBARDS. A name given to the mer chants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe. LONDRES. L. Fr. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4. London. Yearb. LONG PARLIAMENT. The name usually given to the parliament which met in November, 1640, under Charles I., and was dissolved by Cromwell on the 10th of April, 1653. The name "Long Parliament" is, how ever, also given to the parliament which met in 1661, after the restoration of the mon archy, and was dissolved on the 30th of December, 1678. This latter parliament is sometimes called, by way of distinction, the "long parliament of Charles II." Mozley & Whitley. LONG QUINTO, THE. An expression used to denote part second of the year-book which gives reports of cases in 5 Edw. IV. LONG VACATION. The recess of the English courts from August 10th to October 24th. Longa possessio est paois jus. Long possession is the law of peace. Branch, Princ; Co. Litt. 6. Longa possessio jus parit. Long pos session begets right. Pleta, lib. 3, c. 15, §6. Longa possessio parit jus possidendi, et tollit actionem vero domino. Long possession produces the right of possession, and takes away from the true owner bis ac tion. Co. Litt. 1106. Longum tempus et longus usus qui excedit memoria hominum suffioit pro jure. Co. Litt. 115a. Long time and long use, exceeding the memory of men, suffices for right. LOOKOUT. A proper lookout on a ves sel is some one in a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to communicate with him, and to receive commu nications from him, and exclusively employed in watching the movements of vessels which they are meeting or about to pass. 12 How. 462. LOPWOOD. A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands of the manor. Sweet.

LOG-BOOK. A ship's journal. It con tains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence dur ing the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 312. The part of the log-book relating to trans actions in the harbor is termed the "harbor log;" that relating to what happens at sea. the "sea log." Young, Naut. Diet. LOG-ROLLING. A mischievous legis lative practice, of embracing in one bill sev eral distinct matters, none of which, per haps, could singly obtain the assent of the legislature, and then procuring its passage by a combination of the minorities in favor of each of the measures into a majority that will adopt them all. 60 Ala. 369. LOGATING. An unlawful game men tioned in St. 83 Hen. VIII. c. 9. LOGIA. A small house, lodge, or cot tage. Mon. Angl. torn. 1, p. 400. LOGIC. The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes both the process itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all other intellectual operations, in so far as auxiliary to this. LOGItJM. In old records. A lodge, hovel, or outhouse. LOGOGBAPHUS. In Koman law. A public clerk, register, or book-keeper; one who wrote or kept books of accounts. Dig. 50, 4, 18, 10; Cod. 10, 69. LOGS. Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of va rious kinds; not including manufactured lumber of any sort, nor timber which is squared or otherwise shaped for use without further change in form. 52 Wis. 398, 9 N. W. Rep. 67. LOLLARDS. A body of primitive Wes leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John Wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against their will) in the insurrection of the villeins in 1381, the statute BeffcereticoComburen do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, they were not suppressed, and their representa tives survive to the present day under vari ous names and disguises. Brown.

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