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beneath. Stevenson v. Wallace, 27 Grat (Va.) 77; Farrand v. Marshall, 19 Barb. (N. Y.) 380; Foley v. Wyeth, 2 Allen (Mass.) 131, 79 Am. Dec. 771; 12 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 933. LATERARE. To lie sideways, in opposi tion to lying endways; used in descriptions of lands. LATH, LATHE. The name of an an cient civil division in England, intermediate between the county or shire and the hundred. Said to be the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was termed a "rape." 1 Bl. Comm. 116; Cowell; Spelman. — Lathreve. An officer under the Saxon gov ernment, who had authority over a lathe. Cow ell; 1 Bl. Comm. 116. LATIFUNDIUM. Lat. In the civil law. Great or large possessions; a great or large field; a common. A great estate made up of smaller ones, (fundis,) which began to be common in the latter times of the empire. LATIFUNDUS. A possessor of a large estate made up of smaller ones. Du Cange. LATIMER. A word used by Lord Coke in the sense of an interpreter 2 Inst. 515. Supposed to be a corruption of the French "latinier," or "latiner." Cowell; Blount. LATIN. The language of the ancient Romans. There are three sorts of law Latin: (1) Good Latin, allowed by the grammarians and lawyers; (2) false or incongruous Latin, wtich in times past would abate original writs, though it would not make void any judicial writ, declaration, or plea, etc.; (3) words of art, known only to the sages of the law, and not to grammarians, called "Law yers' Latin." Wharton. LATINARIUS. An interpreter of Latin. LATINI JUNIANI. Lat. In Roman law. A class of freedmen (libertini) interme diate between the two other classes of freed men called, respectively, "Gives Romani" and "Dediticii." Slaves under thirty years of age at the date of their manumission, or manumitted otherwise than by vindicta, cen sus, or testamentum, or not the quiritary property of their manumissors at the time of manumission, were called "Latini." By rea son of one or other of these three defects, they remained slaves by strict law even after their manumission, but were protected in their liberties first by equity, and eventually by the Lex Junia Norbana, A. D. 19, from which law they took the name of "Juniani" in addition to that of "Latini." Brown. In old English practice. A writ which issued in personal actions, on the return of non est inventus to a bill of Mid LATITAT.

dlesex; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in which it was "testified that the defendant lurks [latitat] and wanders about" in the county. 3 Bl. Comm. 286. Abolished by St. 2 Wm. IV. c. 39. LATITATTO. Lat In the civil law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract, fol. 126. LATOR. Lat In the civil law. A bear er; a messenger. Also a maker or giver of laws. LATRO. Lat. In the civil and old Eng lish law. A robber. Dig. 50, 16, 118; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 1. A thief. LATROCINATION. The act of robbing; a depredation. LATROCINIUM. The prerogative of ad judging and executing thieves; also larceny; thert; a thing stolen. LATROCINY. Larceny. LATTER-MATH. A second mowing; the aftermath. LAUDARE. Lat. In the civil law. To name; to cite or quote; to show one's title or authority. Calvin. In feudal law. To determine or pass up on judicially. Laudamentum, the finding or award of a jury. 2 Bl. Comm. 285. LAUDATIO. Lat. In Roman law. Tes timony delivered in court concerning an ac cused person's good behavior and integrity of life. It resembled the practice which pre vails in our trials of calling persons to speak to a prisoner's character. The least number of the laudatores among the Romans was ten. Wharton. LAUDEMEO. In Spanish law. The tax paid by the possessor of land held by quit rent or emphyteusis to the owner of the es tate, when the tenant alienates his right in the property. Escriche. Lat. In the civil law. a sum paid by a new emphyteuta (q. v.) who acquires the emphyteusis, not as heir, but as a singular successor, whether by gift, devise, exchange, or sale. It was a sum equal to the fiftieth part of the purchase money, paid to the domtnus or proprietor for his accept ance of the new emphyteuta. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 328. Called, in old English law, "acknowledgment money." Cowell. LAUDEMIUM. LAUDATOR. Lat An arbitrator; a witness to character.