KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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LEGITIMI H2EREDES. Lat In Bo man law. Legitimate heirs; the agnate re lations of the estate-leaver; so called because the inheritance was given to them by a law of the Twelve Tables. Lawful; legitimate. Legitimus hceres et filius est quern nuptice demonstrant, a lawful son and heir is he whom the marriage points out to be lawful. Bract fol. 63. LEGO. Lat. In Roman law. I bequeath. A common term in wills. Dig. 30, 36, 81, et seq. LEGRUITA. In old records. A fine for criminal conversation with a woman. LEGULEIUS. A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forma of law. Calvin. LEIDGRAVE. An officer under the Sax on government, who had jurisdiction over a lath. Enc. Lond. See LATH. LEIPA. In old English law. A fugitive or runaway. LEND. To part with a thing of value to another for a time fixed or indefinite, yet to have some time in ending, to be used or en joyed by that other, the thing itself or the equivalent of it to be given back at the time fixed, or when lawfully asked for, with or without compensation for the use as may be agreed upon. Kent v. Quicksilver Min. Co., 78 N. Y. 177. LENDER. He from whom a thing is bor rowed. The bailor of an article loaned. LENT. In ecclesiastical law. The quad ragesimal fast; a time of abstinence; the time from Ash-Wednesday to Easter. LEOD. People; a people; a nation. Spelman. LEODES. In old European law. A vas sal, or liege man; service; a toere or xoere gild. Spelman. LEOHT-GESCEOT. A tax for supplying the church with lights. Anc. Inst. Eng. LEONINA SOCIETAS. Lat. An at tempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits. This was a void partnership in Roman law; and, apparently, it would also be void as a partnership in English law, as being inherently inconsistent with the notion of partnership. (Dig. 17, 2, 29, 2.) Brown. LEP AND LACE, A custom in the man or of Writtle, in Essex, that every cart which LEGITIMUS.

goes over Greenbury within that manor {ex cept it be the cart of a nobleman) shall pay 4d. to the lord. Blount. LEPORARIUS. A greyhound. CowelL LEPORIUM. A place where hares are kept Mon. Angl. t 2, p. 1035. LEPROSUS. L. Lat. A leper. —Leproso amovendo. An ancient writ that lay to remove a leper or lazar, who thrust him self into the company of his neighbors in any parish, either in the church or at other public meetings, to their annoyance. Reg. Orig. 237. LESCHEWES. Trees fallen by chance or wind-falls. Brooke, Abr. 341. LESE MAJESTY. The old English and Scotch translation of "Icesa majestas," or high treason. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6. LESION. Fr. Damage; Injury; detri ment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract Civil Code La. art. 1860. Inequality in con tracts. Poth. Obi., no. 33. In medical jurisprudence. Any change in the structure of an organ due to injury or disease, whether apparent or diagnosed as the cause of a functional irregularity or disturbance.' LESPEGEND. An inferior officer in for ests to take care of the vert and venison therein, etc. Wharton. LESSEE. He to whom a lease is made. He who holds an estate by virtue of a lease. Viterbo v. Friedlander, 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct. 962, 30 L. Ed. 776. LESSOR. He who grants a lease. Viter bo v. Friedlander, 120 U. S. 707, 7 Sup. Ct 962, 30 L. Ed. 776. —Lessor of the plaintiff. In the action of ejectment, this was the party who really and in effect prosecuted the action and was inter ested in its result. The reason of his having been so called arose from the circumstance of the action having been carried on in the name of a nominal plaintiff, (John Doe,) to whom the real plaintiff had granted a fictitious lease, and thus had become his lessor. LEST. Fr. In French maritime law. Ballast. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit 4, art. 1. LESTAGE, LASTAGE. A custom for carrying things in fairs and markets. Fleta. 1. 1, c. 47; Termes de la Ley. LESTAGEFRY. Lestage free, or ex empt from the duty of paying ballast money CowelL