KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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LOOARIUM

LOCUS

LOCARIUM. In old European law. The price of letting; money paid for the hire of a thing; rent Spelman. LOCATAIRE. In French law. A les see, tenant, or renter.

taken or located, with the requisite descrip tion of the extent and boundaries of the parcel. St. Louis Smelting, etc., Co. v. Kemp, 104 U. S. 649, 26 L. Ed. 875. In a secondary sense, the mining claim covered by a single act of appropriation or location. Id. In Scotch law. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertain ed hire. 1 Bell, Comm. 255. LOCATIVE CALLS. In a deed, patent, or other instrument containing a description of land, locative calls are specific calls, de scriptions, or marks of location, referring to landmarks, physical oDjects, or other points by which the land can be exactlv located and identified. LOCATOR. In the civil and Scotch law. A letter; one who lets; he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913. In American land law. One who locates land, or intends or is entitled to locate. See LOCATION. LOCK-UP HOUSE. A place used tem porarily as a prison. LOCKMAN. An officer in the Isle of Man, to execute the orders of the governor, much like our under-sheriff. Wharton. LOGMAN. Fr. In French marine law. A local pilot whose business was to assist the pilot of the vessel in guiding her course into a harbor, or through a river or channel. Martin v. Farnsworth, 33 N. Y. Super. Ct 260. LOCULUS. In old records. A coffin; JL purse. Holding the place. A deputy, substitute, lieutenant, or representative. In the civil law. Able to respond in an action; good for the amount which the plaintiff might recover. Dig. 60, 16, 234, L LOCUM TENENS. Lat LOCUPLES. Lat LOCUS. Lat A place; the place where a thing is done. —Locus contractus. The place of a contract; the place where a contract is made —Locus criminis. The locality of a crime; the place where a crime was committed.—Locus delic ti. The place of the offense; the place where an offense was committed. 2 Kent, Comm. LOCO PARENTIS. See IN Loco PA RENTIS. LOCOCESSION. The act of giving place.

LOCATARIUS. Lat A depositee.

LOCATE. To ascertain and fix the posi tion of something, the place of which was be fore uncertain or not manifest; as to locate the calls in a deed. To decide upon the place or direction to be occupied by something not yet in being; as to locate a road. LOCATIO. Lat. In the civil law. Let ting for hire. The term is also used by text writers upon the law of bailment at' common law. In Scotch law it is translated "loca tion." Bell. —Locatio-conductio. In the civil law. A compound word used to denote the contract of bailment for hire, expressing the action of both parties, viz., a letting by the one and a hiring by the other. 2 Kent, Comm. 586, note; Story, Bailm. § 368; Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Baym. 913.—Iiocatio custodies. A letting to keep; a bailment or deposit of goods for hire. Story, Bailm. § 442.—Locatio operis. In the civil law. The contract of hiring work, •. e., labor and services. It is a contract by which one of the parties gives a certain work to be per formed by the other, who binds himself to do it for the price agreed between them, which he who gives the work to be done promises to pay to the other for doing it. Poth. Louage, no. 392; Zell v. Dunkle, 156 Pa. 353, 27 Atl. 3a —Locatio operis faciendi. A letting out of work to be done; a bailment of a thing for the purpose of having some work and labor on care and pains bestowed on it for a pecuniary recompense 2 Kent, Com. 586, 588; Story, Bailm. §§ 370, 421, 422.—Locatio operis mer cium vehendarnm. A letting of work to be done in the carrying of goods; a contract of bailment by which goods are delivered to a per son to carry for hire. 2 Kent, Comm. 597; Story, Bailm. §§ 370, 457.—Locatio rei. A letting of a thing to hire. 2 Kent, Comm. 586. The bailment or letting of a thing to be used by the bailee for a compensation to be paid by him. Story, Bailm. § 370. In American land law. The designation of the boundaries of a par ticular piece of land, either upon record or on the land itself. Mosby v. Carland, 1 Bibb. (Ky.) 84. The finding and marking out the bounds of a particular tract of land, upon the land it self, in conformity to a certain description contained in an entry, grant, map, etc.; such description consisting in what are termed "locative calls." Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bland (Md.) 329. In mining law. The act of appropriating a "mining claim" (parcel of land containing precious metal in its soil or rock) according to certain established rules. It usually con sists in placing on the ground, in a con spicuous position, a notice setting forth the name of the locator, the fact that it is thus LOCATION.