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Lagh [fr. laga, Sax.], law. Obsolete....
Lawless Court
Lawless Court [quia dicta sine lege, Lat.], 'a tribunal held on King's Hill, at Rochford, in Essex, on Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas Day, yearly, at cock-crowing, at which Court they whisper, and have no candle, nor any pen nor ink, but a coal; and he that owes suit or service there, and appears not, forfeits double his rent.'-Cam. Brit. Obsolete....
Lay people
Lay people, jurymen. Obsolete....
Litispendence
Litispendence [fr. lis, Lat., strife, and pendeo, to hang], the time during which a law-suit is going on. Obsolete....
Liberum tenementum
Liberum tenementum, a frank tenement or freehold. The plea of liberum tenementum, commonly pleaded by the defendant in an action of trespass, was the only case of usual occurrence in more modern practice, in which the allegation of a general freehold title in lieu of a precise allegation of title was sufficient. It was sustained by proof of any estate of freehold, whether in fee, in tail, or for life only, and whether in possession or expectant on determination of a term of years, but it did not apply to the case of a freehold estate in remainder or reversion, expectant on a particular estate of freehold, nor to copyhold tenure, Stephen on Pleading, 7th Edn. 257. Obsolete. See now PLEADING....
Licking of thumbs
Licking of thumbs, a form by which bargains were complete. Obsolete....
Indebitatus assumpsit
Indebitatus assumpsit [Lat.] (being indebted he undertook), that species of the action of assumpsit in which the plaintiff first alleged a debt, and then a promise in consideration of the debt. Since the Judicature Acts, obsolete as a technical form of action. See PLEADING....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Manentes
Manentes [fr. maneo,Lat., to continue], tenants. Obsolete....
Maritagio amisso per defaltam
Maritagio amisso per defaltam, an obsolete writ for the tenant in frank-marriage to recover lands, etc., of which he was deforced....
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