KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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L^SIONE FIDEL

LANCASTER

LAIS GENTS.

•#., when a vendor had not received half the value of property sold, or the purchaser had paid more than double value. Colq. Rom. Oivil Law, § 2094. LiESIONE FIDEL, SUITS PRO. Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual of fenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into •courts of equity was checked by the consti tutions of Clarendon, A. D. 1164. 3 Bl. <3omm. 52. LiESIWERP. A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing giv en or delivered. Spelman. UET. In old English law. One of a class between servile and free. Palgrave, i. 354. UETARE JERUSALEM. Easter of ferings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also denominat ed "quadrage&imalia." Wharton. LXTHE, or LATHE. A' division or district peculiar to the county of Kent. Spel man. LAFORDSWIC. In Saxon law. A be traying of one's lord or master. IiAGA. L. Lat, from the Saxon "lag." Law; a law. LAGAN. See LIGAN. LAGE DAT. In old English law. A law day; a time of open court; the day of the county court; a juridical day. LAGE-MAN. A lawful man; a good and lawful man. A juror. Cowell. LAGENA. L. Lat. In old English law. A measure of ale. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 11. Said to consist of six sextaries. Cowell. LAGU. In old English law. Law; also «sed to express the territory or district in which a particular law was in force, as Dena lagu, Mercna lagu, etc. LAHLSLIT. A breach of law. Cowell. A mulct for an offense, viz., twelve "ores." LAHMAN, or LAGEMANNUS. An old word for a lawyer. Domesday, I. 189. LAIA. A roadway in a wood. Mon. Angl. t 1, p. 483. IiAICUS. Lat A layman. One who is not in holy orders, or not engaged in*the ministry of religion. LAIRWITE, or LAIRESITE. A fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of some manors. 4 Inst 206.

L. Fr. Lay people; a

jury.

LAITY. In English law. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, in cluding all the nation, except the clergy, the army, and navy, and subdivided into the no bility and the commonalty; (2) military; (3) maritime, consisting of the navy. Wharton. LAKE. A large body of water, contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Webster. See Jones v. Lee, 77 Mich. 35, 43 N. W. 855; Ne-pee-nauk Club v. Wilson, 96 Wis. 290, 71 N. W. 661. The fact that there is a current from a higher to a lower level does not make that a river which would otherwise be a lake; and the fact that a river swells out into broad, pond-like sheets, with a current does not make that a lake which would otherwise be a river. State v. Gilmanton, 14 N. H. 477. LAMB. A sheep, ram, or ewe under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216. A work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo Saxon laws, those of William the Conqueror, and of Henry I. LAMBARD'S EIRENARCHA. A work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone through two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599. LAMBETH DEGREE. In English law. A degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in prejudice of the universities. 3 Steph. Comm. 65; 1 Bl. Comm. 381. LAME DUCK. A cant term on the stock exchange for a person unable to meet his engagements. LAMMAS DAT. The 1st of August It is one of the Scotch quarter days, and is what Is called a "conventional term." Lands over which there is a right of pasturage by persons other than the owner from about Lammas, or reap ing time, until sowing time. Wharton. LAMBARD'S ARCHAIONOMIA. LAMMAS LANDS. LAMANEUR. Fr. In French marine law. A pilot Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit 3.

LANA.

Lat. In the civil law. WooL

See Dig. 32, 60, 70, 88.

LANCASTER. A county of England, erected into a county palatine in the reign of Edward III., but now vested in the crown.