日期：2008-03-18 LICENSEE. One to whom a license has been given. 1 M. Q. S. 699 n. LICENTIA CONCORDANDI, estates, conveyancing, practice. When an action is brought for the purpose of levying a fine, the defendant, knowing himself to be in the wrong, is supposed to m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LICENSE , contracts. A right given by some competent authority to do an act, which without such authority would be illegal. The instrument or writing which secures this right, is also called a license. Vide Ayl. Parerg, 353; 15 Vin. Ab. 92; Ang. Wat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. The right to print and publish the truth, from good motives, and for justifiable ends. 3 Johns. Cas. 394. 2. This right is secured by the constitution of the United States. Amendments, art. 1. The abuse of the right is punished... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIBERTY. Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. 2. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political. 3. Civil liberty is the power to do whateve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIBEL OF ACCUSATION. A term used in Scotland to designate the instrument which contains the charge against a person accused of a crime. Libels are of two kinds, namely, indictments and crimiual letters. 2. Every libel assumes the form of what is ter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIBEL, libellus, criminal law. A malicious defamation expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, with intent to provoke the living; or the reputation of one who is alive, and t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIBEL, practice. A libel has been defined to be the plaintiff's petition or allegation, made and exhibited in a judicial process, with some solemnity of law; it is also, said to be a short and well ordered writing, setting forth in a clear manner, a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEX TALIONIS. The law of retaliation an example of which is given in the law of Moses, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, c. 2. Jurists and writers on international law are divided as to the right of one nation punishing with death, by way of r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEX. The law. A law for the government of mankind in society. Among the ancient Romans, this word was frequently used as synonymous with right, jus. When put absolutely, lex meant the Law of the Twelve Tables. LEX FALCIDIA, civ. law. The name of a l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEVANT ET COUCHANT. This French phrase, which ought perhaps more properly to be couchant et levant, signifies literally rising and lying down. In law, it denotes that space of time which cattle have been on the land in which they have had time to li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LETTERS OF REQUEST , Eng. eccl. law, An instrument by which a judge of an inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in favor of a court of appeal immediately superior to it. 2. Letters of request, in general, lie only where an appeal woul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LETTER OP LICENSE, contracts. An instrument or writing made by creditors to their insolvent debtor, by which they bind themselves to allow him a longer time than he had a right to, for the payment of his debts and that they will not arrest or molest... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LETTER OF CREDENCE, international law. A written instrument addressed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a state, to the sovereign or state to whom a public minister is sent, certifying his appointment as such, and the general objects of his mi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LETTER BOOK, commerce. A book containing the copies of letters written by a merchant or trader to his correspondents. 2. After notice to the plaintiff to produce a letter which he admitted to have received from the defendant, it was held that an ent... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LETTER, contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. See Hire; Locator; Conductor; Story on Bailm. 369. 2. Accordi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LESSOR. contr. He who grants a lease. Civ. Code of L. art. 2647. LESTAGE, Eng: law. Duties paid for unlading goods in port. Harg. L. Tr. 75. LET. Hinderance, obstacle, obstruction; as, without let, molestation or hinderance. TO LET. To hire, to leas... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LESION, contracts. In the civil law this term is used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of situation, by one who does not receive a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract. 2. The remedy given for this... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEGITIME, civil law. That portion of a parent's estate of which he cannot disinherit his children, without a legal cause. The civil code of Louisiana declares that donations inter vivos or mortis causa cannot exceed two-thirds of the property of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEGISLATURE, government. That body of men in the state which has the power of making laws. 2. By the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 1, all legislative powers granted by it are vested in a congress of the United States, which shall con... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEGALIS HOMO . A person who stands rectus in curia, who possesses all his civil rights. A lawful man. One who stands rectus in curia, not outlawed nor infamous. In this sense are the words probi et legates homines. LEGANTINE CONSTITUTIONS . The name... 阅读全文>>