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of Charles II." Mozley & Whitley.— Long qninto, the. An expression used to denote part second of the year-book which gives reports of cases in 5 Edw. IV.—Long robe. A meta phorical expression designating the practice or profession of the law: as, in the phrase "gentle men of the long robe."—Long ton. A measure of weight equivalent to 20 hundred-weight of 112 pounds «ach, or 2,240 pounds, as distin f uished from the "short" ton of 2,000 pounds, ee Rev. St. U. S. § 2951 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1941). But see Jones v. Giles, 10 Exch. 119, as to an English custom of reckoning a ton or iron "long weight" as 2,400 pounds.—Long va cation. The recess of the English courts from August 10th to October 24th. Longa possessio jus parit. Long pos session begets right. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15, § 6. Longa possessio parit jus possidendi, et tollit actionem vero domino. Long possession produces the right of possession, and takes away from the true owner his ac tion. Co. Litt. 1105. Long-am tempus et longus usus qui excedit ntemoria hominum sufficit pro jure. Co. Litt. 115a. Long time and long use, exceeding the memory of men, suffices for right LOOKOUT. A proper lookout on a ves sel is some one in a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to communicate with him, and to receive communications from him, and exclusively employed in watching the movements of ves sels which they are meeting or about to pass. The Genesee Chief v. Fitzhugh, 12 How. 462, 13 L. Ed. 1058. A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands of the manor. Sweet. LOQUELA. Lat. A colloquy; talk. In old English law, this term denoted the oral: altercations of the parties to a suit, which led to the issue, now called the "pleadings." It also designated an "imparlance," (q. v.,) both names evidently referring to the talk ing together of the parties. Loguela sine die, a postponement to an indefinite time. Loquendum ut vulgus; sentiendum ut docti. We must speak as the common peo ple; we must think as the learned. 7 Coke, 11&. This maxim expresses the rule that, when words are used in a technical sense, they must be understood technically; other wise, when they may be supposed to be used in their ordinary acceptation. A title of honor or nobility belonging properly to the degree of baron, but applied also to the LOPWOOD. LORD. In English law. Longa possessio est pacis jus. possession is the law of peace. Long Branch, Prlnc.; Co. Litt 6.

who wrote or kept books of accounts. Dig. 50, 4, 18, 10; Cod. 10, 69.

LOGS. Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of va rious kinds; not including manufactured lumber of any sort, nor timber which is squared or otherwise shaped for use without further change in form. Kolloch v. Parcher, 52 Wis. 393, 9 N. W. 67. And see Haynes v. Hayward, 40 Me. 148; State v. Addington, 121 N. C 538, 27 S. E. 988; Code W. Va. 1899, p. 1071, § 27 (Code 1906, § 2524). A body of primitive Wes leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John Wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against their will) in the insurrection of the villeins in 1381, the statute Be Hceretico Comburen do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, they were not suppressed, and their representa tives survive to the present day under vari ous names and disguises. Brown. A name given to the mer chants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe. In the language of the stock exchange, a broker or speculator is said to be "long" on stock, or as to a particular security, when he has in his possession or control an abun dant supply of it, or a supply exceeding the amount which he has contracted to deliver, or, more particularly, when he has bought a supply of such stock or other security for future delivery, speculating on a consider able future advance in the market price. See Kent v. Miltenberger, 13 Mo. App. 506. —Long account. An account involving num erous separate items or Charges, on one side or both, or the statement of various complex trans actions, such as a court of equity will refer to a master or commissioner or a court of law to a referee under the codes of procedure. See Dick inson v. Mitchell, 19 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 286; Druse v. Horter, 57 Wis. 644, 16 N. W. 14; Doyle v. Metropolitan EI. R. Co., 1 Misc. Rep. 376, 20 N. Y. Supp. 865.—Long parliament. The name usually given to the parliament which met in November, 1640, under Charles I., and was dissolved by Cromwell on the 10th of April, 1653. The name "Long Parliament" is, how ever, also given to the parliament which met in 1661, after the restoration of the monarchy, and was dissolved on the 30th of December, 1678. This latter parliament is sometimes call ed, by way of distinction, the "long parliament BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)—47 LOLLARDS. LOMBARDS. LOXDRES. L. Fr. London. Yearb. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4. LONG. In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular.