KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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La ley voct plus tost suffer un mis cheife que un inconvenience. The law will sooner suffer a mischief than an incon venience. Litt. § 231. It is holden for an inconvenience that any of the maxims of the law should be broken, though a private man suffer loss. Co. Litt. 152&.

It. This letter, as a Roman numeral, stands for the number "fifty." used as an abbreviation for "law," "liber," (a book,) "lord," and some other words of which it is the initial. It is also

L. 5. An abbreviation of "Long one of the parts of the Year Books.

Quinto,"

LAAS.

In old records. A net, gin, or

snare.

IJ. C. An abbreviation which may stand either for "Lord Chancellor," "Lower Cana da," or "Leading Cases." L. J. An abbreviation for "Law Judge;" also for "Law Journal." L. Ii. (also L. Lat.) and IJ. F. (also L. Fr.) are used as abbreviations of the terms "Law Latin" and "Law French." Ii. S.» An abbreviation for "Locus sigilli," the place of the seal, i. e., the place where a seal is to be affixed, or a scroll which stands instead of a seal See Smith v. But ler, 25 N. H. 524; Barnes v. Walker, 115 Ga. 108, 41 S E. 243; McLaughlin v. Brad dy, 63 S. O. 433, 41 S. E 523, 90 Am. St. Rep. 681. LI*. The reduplicated form of the abbre viation "L." for "law," used as a plural. It Is generally used in citing old collections of statute law; as "LL. Hen. I." Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three aca demic degrees in law,—bachelor, master, and doctor of laws. LA. Fr. The. The definite article in the feminine gender. Occurs in some legal terms and phrases; as "Termes de la Ley," terms of the law. I1I1.B., LL.M., and LL.D. LA CHAMBRE DES ESTEILLES. The star-chamber. La conscience est la plus changeante des regies. Conscience is the most change able of rules. Bouv. Diet The law favors the life of a man. Yearb. M. 10 Hen. VI. 51. La ley favour l'enheritance d'un home. The law favors the inheritance of a man. Yearb. M. 10 Hen. VI. 51. La ley favour la vie d'un home. Ii. R. An abbreviation for "Law Re ports." LA. Fr. There. An adverb of time and place; whereas.

LABEL. Anything appended to a larger writing, as a codicil; a narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writ, in order to hold the appending seal. In the vernacular, the word denotes a printed or written slip of paper affixed to a manufactured article, giving information as to its nature or quality, or the contents of a package, name of the maker, etc. See Per kins v. Heert, 5 App. Div. 335, 39 N. Y. Supp. 223; Higgins v. Keuffel, 140 U. S. 428, 11 Sup. Ct. 731, 35 L. Ed. 470; Burke v. Cassin, 45 Cal. 481, 13 Am. Rep. 204. A copy of a writ in the exchequer. 1 Tidd, Pr. 156. LABINA. In old records. Watery land. LABOR. 1. Work; toil; service. Con tinued exertion, of the more onerous and in ferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends. It is used in this sense In several legal phrases, such as "a count for work and labor," "wages of labor," etc. "Labor," "business," and "work" are not syn onyms. Labor may be business, but it is not necessarily so; and business is not always la bor. Labor implies toil; exertion producing weariness; manual exertion of a toilsome na ture. Making an agreement for the sale of a chattel is not within a prohibition of common labor upon Sunday, though it is (if by a mer chant in his calling) within a prohibition upon business. Bloom v. Richards, 2 Ohio St. 387. — Common labor, within the meaning of Sun day laws, is not to be restricted to manual or physical labor, but includes the transaction of ordinary business, trading, and the execution of notes and other instruments.* Bryan v. Wat son, 127 Ind. 42, 26 N. E. 666, 11 L. R. A. 63; Link v. Clemmens, 7 Blackf. (Ind.) 480; Cincin nati v. Rice, 15 Ohio, 225; Eitel v. State, 33 Ind. 201. But compare Bloom v. Richards. 2 Ohio St. 387; Horacek v. Keebler, 5 Neb. 355. It does not include the transaction of judicial business or the acts of public officers. State v. Thomas. 61 Ohio St. 444. 56 'N. E. 276, 48 L. R A. 459; Hastings v. Columbus, 42 Ohio St. 585. 2. A Spanish land measure, in use in Mexico and formerly in Texas, equivalent to 1771/7 acres. In old practice. To tamper with a jury; to endeavor to influence them in their verdict, or their verdict gen erally. LABOR A JURY.