日期：2008-03-19 MAINOUR, crim. law. The thing stolen found in the hands of the thief who has stolen it; hence when a man is found with property which he has stolen, he is said to be taken with the mainour, that is, it is found in his hands. 2. Formerly there was a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MAILE, ancient English law. A small piece of money; it also signified a rent, because the rent was paid with maile. MAIM, pleadings. This is a technical word necessary to be introduced into all indictments for mayhem; the words feloniously did maim,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MAIDEN. The name of an instrument formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. MAIL. This word, derived from the French malle, a trunk, signifies the bag, valise, or other contrivance used in conveying through the post office, letters, packets... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MAGISTRACY, mun. law. In its most enlarged signification, this term includes all officers, legislative, executive, and judicial. For example, in most of the state constitutions will be found this provision; the powers of the government are divided i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 M. When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb. 2. This letter is sometimes put on the face of treasury notes of the United States, and signifies that the treasury note... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LUNAR. That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month. See Month. LUNATIC, persons. One who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one who... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LUCRE. Gain, profit. Cl. des Lois Rom. h. t. LUCRI CAUSA. This is a Latin expression, which signifies that the thing to which it applies is done for the sake of gain. 2. It was supposed that when a larceny was committed the taking should have been l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOW WATER MARK. That part of the shore of the sea to which the waters re- cede when the tide is the lowest. Vide High Water Mark; River; Sea Shore; Dane's Ab. h. t.; 1 Halst. R. 1. LOYAL . Legal; according to law; as, loyal matrimony, a lawful marri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOT OF GROUND. A small piece of land in a town or city usually employed for building, a yard, a garden or such other urban use. Lots are in-lots, or those within the boundary of the city or town, and out-lots, those which are out of such boundary, a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOST. What was once possessed and cannot now be found. 2. When a bond or other deed was lost, formerly the obligee or plaintiff was compelled to go into equity to seek relief, because there was no remedy a law, the plaintiff being required to make p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOG BOOK. A ship's journal. It contains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the vovage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 408. When a log books required by law to be kept, it is an official register so far as regards t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOCUM TENENS. He who holds the place of another, a deputy; as A B, locum tenens of C D, mayor of the city of Philadelphia. LOCUS. The place where a thing is done. LOCUS CONTRACTUS. The place of the contract. In general, the law of the place where th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOCATIO OPERIS FACIENDI, contracts. A term used in the civil law. There are two kinds, first, the location operis faciendi, strictly so called, or the hire of labor and services; such as the hire of tailors to make clothes, and of jewelers to set ge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOCAL. Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or courts whose jurisdiction is limited to a particular place; local allegiance, or allegiance due while you are in a particular place or c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LOAN FOR CONSUMPTION, or, MUTUTUM. (q. v.) A contract by which the owner of a personal chattel, called the lender, delivers it to another, known as the borrower, by which it is agreed that the borrower shall consume the chattel loaned, and return at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LITISPENDENCE. The part of an action being depending and undetermined; the time during which an action is pending. See Lis pendens. LITRE. A French measure of capacity. It is of the size of a decimetre, or one-tenth part of a cubic metre. It is equa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LISTERS . This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Verm. Rev. Stat. 538. LITERAL CONTRACT, civil law. A contract, the whole of the evidence of which is reduced to writing. This contrac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LIRA. The name of a foreign coin. In all computations at the custom house, the lira of Sardinia shall be estimated at eighteen cents and six mills. Act of March 22, 1846. The lira of the Lombardo-Venitian Kingdom, and the lira of Tuscany, at sixteen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LINE, measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. LINE , estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary. 2. When a line is mentioned in a deed as ending at a particular monument, (q. v.) it i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LINE, descents. The series of persons who have descended from a common ancestor, placed one under the other, in the order of their birth. It connects successively all the relations by blood to each other. Vide Consanguinity; Degree. A s / 6. Tritavu... 阅读全文>>