KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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LIS

LINEA RECTA SEMPER

Linea recta semper prsefertur trans versal!. The right line is always preferred to the collateral. Co. Litt. 10; Broom, Max. 529. Race; progeny; family, as cending or descending. Lockett v. Lockett, 04 Ky. 289, 22 S. W. 224. That which comes in a line; especially a direct line, as from father to son. Collateral relationship is not called "lineal," though the expression "collateral line," is not unusual. —Lineal consanguinity. That kind of con sanguinity which subsists between persons of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other; as between a particular person and his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so upward, in the direct ascending line; or between the same person and his son, grandson, great grandson, and so downwards in the direct de scending line. 2 Bl. Comm. 203; Willis Coal & Min. Co. v. Grizzell, 198 111. 313, 65 N. E. 74. —Lineal descent. See DESCENT.— Lineal warranty. A warranty by an ancestor from whom the title did or might have come to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 301; Rawle, Cov. 30. A unit In a connected series; anything which serves to connect or bind to gether the things which precede and follow it. Thus, we speak of a "link in the chain of title." Lat In the civil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory. When a judex was in doubt how to decide a case, he represented to the praetor, * under oath, siM non liquere, (that it was not clear to him,) and was thereupon discharged. Calvin. To adjust or settle an In debtedness; to determine an amount to be paid; to clear up an account and ascertain the balance; to fix the amount required to satisfy a judgment Midgett v. Watson, 29 N. C. 145; Martin v. Kirk, 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 531. To clear away; to lessen; to pay. "To liquidate a balance means to pay it." Fleck ner v. Bank of U. S., 8 Wheat. 338, 362, 5 L. Ed. 631. Ascertained; determin ed ; fixed; settled; made clear or manifest. Cleared away; paid; discharged. —Liquidated account. An account whereof the amount is certain and fixed, either by the act and agreement of the parties or by opera tion of law; a sum which cannot be changed by the proof; it is so much or nothing; but the term* does not necessarily refer to a writ ing. Nisbet v. Lawson, 1 Ga. 287.— Liqui dated damages. See DAMAGES.— Liquidat ed dent. A debt is liquidated when it is cer tain what is due and how much is due. Rob erts v. Prior, 20 Ga. 562.— Liquidated de mand. A demand is a liquidated one if the LINEAGE. LINEAL. LINK. LIQUERE. LIQUET. It Is clear or apparent; it ap pears. Satis liquet, it sufficiently appears. 1 Strange, 412. LIQUIDATE. LIQUIDATED.

amount of it has been ascertained—settled—by the agreement of the parties to it, or other wise. Mitchell v. Addison, 20 Ga. 53. The part ner who upon the dissolution or insolvency of the firm, is appointed to settle its^ ac counts, collect assets, adjust claims, and pay debts. Garretson v. Brown, 185 Pa. 447, 40 Atl. 300. The act or process of settling or making clear, fixed, and determi nate that which before was uncertain or un ascertained. As applied to a company, (or sometimes to the affairs of an individual,) liquidation is used in a broad sense as equivalent to "winding up;" that is, the comprehensive process of settling accounts, ascertaining and adjusting debts, collecting assets, and paying off claims. A person appointed to carry out the winding up of a company. —Official liquidator. In English law. A person appointed by the judge in chancery, in whose court a joint-stock company is being wound up, to bring and defend suits and ac tions in the name of the company, and gen erally to do all things necessary for winding up the affairs of the company, and distributing its assets. 3 Steph. Comm. 24. This term, when used In stat utes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or intoxicating liquors. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 89 N. O. 576; People v. Crilley, 20 Barb. (N. Y.) 248. See INTOXICA TING LIQTJOB; SPIRITUOUS LIQTJOB. —Liquor dealer. One who carries on the business of selling intoxicating liquors, either at wholesale or retail, and irrespective of wheth er the liquor sold is produced or manufactured by himself or by others; but there must be more than a single sale. See Timm v. Harri son, 109 111. 601; U. S. v. Allen (D. C.) 38 Fed. 738; Fincannon v. State, 93 Ga. 418, 21 S. E. 53; State v. Dow. 21 Vt. 484; Mansfield v. 'State, 17 Tex. App. 472.— Liquor-shop. A house where spirituous liquors are kept and sold. Wooster v. State, 6 Baxt. (Tenn.) 534. — Liquor tax certificate. Under the excise laws of New York, a certificate of payment of the tax imposed upon the business of liquor selling, entitling the . holder to carry on that business, and differing from the ordinary form of license in that it does not confer a mere per sonal privilege but creates a species of prop erty which is transferable by the owner. See In re Lyman, 160 N. Y. 96, 54 N. E. 577; In re iCullinan, 82 App. Div. 445, 81 N. Y. Supp. LIQUIDATING PARTNER. LIQUIDATION. LIQUIDATOR. LIQUOR.

LIRA.

The name of an Italian coin, of

the value of about eighteen cents.

LIS.

Lat. A controversy or dispute; a

suit or action at law. —Lis alibi pendens. A suit pending else where. The fact that proceedings are pending between a plaintiff and defendant in one court in respect to a given matter is frequently a