KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

696

LAPSE

LANDLOCKED

LANGEMAN. A lord of a manor.

1

da necessitas"

land rights.

(q. v.;) quasi

Inst. 5.

Cowell.

LANGEOLUM. An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Hon. Angl. 419. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical im port, of a document or instrument, as distin guished from its spirit; as "the language of the statute." See Behling v. State, 110 Ga. 754, 36 S. E. 85; Stevenson v. State, 90 Ga. 456, 16 S. E. 95; Cavan v. Brooklyn (City Ct. Brook.) 5 N. Y. Supp. 759. (Lat Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant, whom he has taken by vir tue of process, is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or health. 3 Chit Pr. 249, 358. LANIS DE CRESCENTIA WALLLS TRADUCENDIS ABSQUE CUSTUMA, etc. An ancient writ that lay to the cus tomer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it be fore in Wales. Reg. Orig. 279. LANGUAGE. LANGUIDUS.

LANDLOCKED. An expression some times applied to a piece of land belonging to one person and surrounded by land belonging to other persons, so that it cannot be ap proached except over their land. L. R. 13 Ch. Div. 79S; Sweet He of whom lands or ten ements are holden. He who, being the own er of an estate in land, has leased the same for a term of years, on a rent reserved, to an other person, called the "tenant" Jackson v. Harsen, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 326, 17 Am. Dec. 517; Becker v. Becker, 13 App. Div. 342, 43 N. Y. Supp. 17. When the absolute property in or fee-sim ple of the land belongs to a landlord, he is then sometimes denominated the "ground landlord," in contradistinction to such a one as 'is possessed only of a limited or particular interest in land, and who himself holds under a superior landlord. Brown. —Landlord and tenant. A phrase used to denote the familiar legal relation existing be tween lessor and lessee of real estate. The relation is contractual, and is constituted by a lease (or agreement therefor) of lands for a term of years, from year to year, for life, or at will.— Landlord's warrant. A distress war rant; a warrant from a landlord to levy upon the tenant's goods and chattels, and sell the same at public sale, to compel payment of the rent or the observance of some other stipulation in the lease. A monument or erection set up on the boundary line of two adjoining estates, to fix such boundary. The removing of a landmark is a wrong for which an action lies. This term, the plural of "land," is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification _ than either "tene ments" or "hereditaments." But in some of the states it has been provided by statute that it shall include both those terms. — Lands clauses consolidation acts. The name given to certain English statutes, (8 Vict c. 8, amended by 23 & 24 Vict c. 106, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18,) the object of which was to provide legislative clauses in a convenient form for incorporation by reference in future special acts of parliament for taking lands, with or without the consent of their owners, for the promotion of railways, and other public under takings. Mozley & Whitley.— Lands, tene ments, and hereditaments. The technical and most comprehensive description of real property, as "goods and chattels" is of person alty. Williams, Real Prop. 5. In Swedish law. A body of common law, compiled about the thir teenth century, out of the particular customs of every province; being analogous to the common law of England. 1 Bl. Coram. 66. LANDLORD. LANDMARK. LANDS. LANDSLAGH.

LANO NIGER.

A sort of base coin, for

merly current in England. Cowell.

LANZAS. In Spanish law. A commuta tion in money, paid by the nobles and high officers, in lieu of the quota of soldiers they might be required to furnish in war. Tre vino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 660.

LAPIDATION.

The act of stoning a

person to death.

LAPIDICINA.

Lat In the civil law. A

stone-quarry. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 2.

LAPILLI. Lat In the civil law. Pre cious stones. Dig. 34, 2, 19, 17. Distinguish ed from "gems," (gemma?.) Id. A marble stone about twelve feet long and three feet broad, placed at the upper end of Westminster Hall, where was likewise a marble chair erected on the middle thereof, in which the English sovereigns anciently sat at their coronation dinner, and at other times the lord chan cellor. Wharton. To glide; to pass slowly, si lently, or by degrees. To slip; to deviate from the proper path. Webster. To fall or fail. — Lapse patent. A patent for land issued in substitution for an earlier patent to the same land, which was issued to another party, but has lapsed in consequence of his neglect to avail himself of it. Wilcox v. Calloway, 1 Wash. (Va.) 39.— Lapsed devise. See DE VISE.—Lapsed legacy. See LEGACY. LAPIS MARMORIUS. LAPSE, v.

LANDWARD. In Scotch law. Rural 7 Bell, App. Cas. 2.