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Locomotives. I

to light locomotives; see, generally, the Road Traffic Acts, 1930, 1931, 1934, etc. See Stone's Justices' Manual, and consult, generally, Mahaffy and Dodson's Law Relating to Motor Cars, and Pratt and Mackenzie's Law of Highways. (b) Heavy

Kleptomania

Kleptomania [fr., Gk., to steal; and, frenzy], insanity in the form of an irresistible propensity to steal. Consult Taylor's Med. Jur.

Knight's fee

and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and even a manor if it is usually called so. Consult Shep. Touch. 92, 93. Selden contends that it was as much as the king was pleased to grant

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Koran, or Alcoran

Koran, or Alcoran, the Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws. Consult Gibbon's Dec. and Fall, ch 1.

Lapse

the death of the trustee in the testator's lifetime the legacy survives for the benefit of the beneficiary. Consult Jarman or Theobald on Wills; Roper on Legacies.

Law Officers of the Crown

the (English) Patents and Designs Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 32), s. 13 and Sch. Consult Norton-Kyshe's Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of England. The Scottish Law Officers are the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor-General (q.v.).

Libel

(1895) 1 QB 758. As to newspaper libels, see NEWSPAPERS; and for the law of the subject generally, consult Odgers or Fraser on Libel; also Addison on Torts, and Clerk and Lindsell on Torts. See FAIR COMMENT;

Justification

if the plea is only one of fair comment, Digby v. Financial News, Ltd., (1907) 1 KB 502. Consult Odgers on Libel. Means (1) A lawful or sufficient reason for one's acts or omissions (2) A showing,

Lecture

by means of any mechanical instrument [s. 35 (1)]; and see ss. 1 (2), 2 (1) (v.), 17. Consult Macgillivray on the Copyright Act, 1911. It includes address, speech and sermon. [Copyright Act, 1957 (4 of 1957),

Legacy

will to show that the legacy was not intended to vest. See ADEMPTION; ABATEMENT; LAPSE; MAINTENANCE and SATISACTION. Consult Roper on Legacies; Theobald on Wills. In the Roman Law a legacy was an injunction given to the

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