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Malecreditus, one of bad credit, who is not to be trusted, Fleta, 1.1, c. xxxviii.

Maledicta expositio qu' corrumpit textum. 4 Co. 35.-(It is a bad exposition which corrupts the text.)

Luxury

Luxury, as an entirely relative term; a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastees; also a mode of life characterized by material abundance and gratification of expensive...

Lurgulary

Lurgulary, casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water.

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Lammas

Lammas [said to be derived from a custom by which the tenants of the Archbishop of York were obliged, at the time of Mass, on the 1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the...

Judgment

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use...

Indecent representation of women

Indecent representation of women, means the depiction in any manner of the figure of a woman, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent,...

Income

Income, s. 4 of the Income-tax Act, defines the 'total income' to include all income, profits and gains from whatever source deprived. The definition of 'income' in Shaw Wallace & Co. case, 1932 (59) IA 206,...

Material facts and material particulars

Material facts and material particulars, all those facts which are essential to clothe the petitioner with a complete cause of action, are 'material facts' which must be pleaded, and failure to plead even a single material...

Expulsion

Expulsion, is the turning out the legal proprietor of an estate in reality before the termination of the estate, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 57. Is forcing out, Webster American Dictionary, p....

Civil death

Civil death. A man is said to be civilly dead (civiliter mortuus) when he has been attainted of treason or felony, and, in former times, when he adjured the realm or went into a monastery. The...