日期：2008-03-18 LEGATEE. A legatee is a person to whom a legacy is given by a last will and testament. 2. It is proposed to consider, 1. Who may be a legatee. 2. Under what description legatees may take. 3. - 1. Who may be a legatee. In general, every person may be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEGAL . That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust. Vide Powell on Mortg. Index, h. t. 2. The party who has the legal title, has alone t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LEGACY, ACCUMULATIVE. An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the same kind of thing, as money, or whether it be of different things, as, one hundred dollars, in one legacy, and a t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAWYER . A counsellor; one learned in the law. Vide dttorney. LEGACY . A bequest or gift of goods or chattels by testament. 2 Bl. Com. 512; Bac. Abr. Legacies, A. See Merlin, Rpertoire, mot Legs, s. 1; Swinb. 17; Domat, liv. 4, t. 2, 1, n. 1. This w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAWS OF OLERON, maritime law. A code of sea laws of deserved celebrity. It was originally promulgated by Eleonor, duchess of Guienne, the mother of Richard the First of England. Returning from the Holy Land, and familiar with the maritime regulation... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAWS EX POST FACTO. Those which are made to punish actions committed before the existence of such laws, and which had not been declared crimes by preceding laws. Declar. of Rights, Mass. part 1, s. 24 Declar. of Rights, Maryl. art. 15. By the consti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAW, PENAL. One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment. LAW, POSITIVE. Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be considered in a threefold point of view. 1. The universal voluntary law, or those rules which are pr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAW OF NATURE. The law of nature is that which God, the sovereign of the universe, has prescribed to all men, not by any formal promulgation, but by the internal dictate of reason alone. It is discovered by a just consideration of the agreeableness... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAW OF NATIONS. The science which teaches the rights subsisting between nations or states, and the obligations correspondent to those rights. Vattel's Law of Nat. Prelim. 3. Some complaints, perhaps not unfounded, have been made as to the want of ex... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAW, CRIMINAL . By criminal law is understood that system of laws which provides for the mode of trial of persons charged with criminal offences, defines crimes, and provides for their punishments. LAW, FOREIGN. By foreign laws are understood the la... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAW, COMMON. The common law is that which derives its force and authority from the universal consent and immemorial practice of the people. It has never received the sanction of the legislature, by an express act, wbich is the criterion by which it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAW, ARBITRARY . An arbitrary law is one made by the legislator simply because he wills it, and is not founded in the nature of things; such law, for example, as the tariff law, which may be high or low. This term is used in opposition to immutable.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAST SICKNESS. That of which a person died. 2. The expenses of this sickness are generally entitled to a preference, in payment of debts of an insolvent estate. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 3166; Purd. Ab. 393. 3. To prevent impositions, the statute of fra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LARGE . Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty. LAS PARTIDAS. The name of a code of Spanish law; sometimes called las siete partidas, or the seven parts, from the number of its principal divis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LANGUIDUS, practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff, when a defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or health. In that case the officer may and ought unquestionably... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LANGUAGE. The faculty which men possess of communicating their perceptions and ideas to one another by means of articulate sounds. This is the definition of spoken language; but ideas and perceptions may be communicated without sound by writing, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LAND. This term comprehends any found, soil or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furze and heath. It has an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards; therefore land, legally includes all houses and other buildings... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LABEL . A narrow slip of paper or parchment, affixed to a deed or writing hanging at or out of the same. This name is also given to an appending seal. LABOR . Continued operation; work. 2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 KNAVE . A false, dishonest, or deceitful person. This signification of the word has arisen by a long perversion of its original meaning. 2. To call a man a knave has been held to be actionable. 1 Rolle's Ab. 52; 1 Freem. 277., KNIGHT'S FEE , old Eng... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 KING'S BENCH . The name of the supreme court of law in England. It is so called because formerly the king used to sit there in person, the style of the court being still coram ipso rege, before the king himself. During the reign of a queen, it is ca... 阅读全文>>