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u.s. trustee An officer of the Justice Department responsible for supervising the administration of bankruptcy cases, estates, and trustees; monitoring plans and disclosure statements; monitoring creditors' committees; monitoring fee applications; and performing other statutory duties. Compare, bankruptcy administrator. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
King's silver
King's silver, the money which was paid to the King, in the Court of Common Pleas for a licence granted to a man to levy a fine of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another person; and this must have been compounded, according to the value of the land, in the alienation office, before the fine would have passed, Inst. 511. see FINE....
Kirby's Quest
Kirby's Quest, an ancient record remaining with the remembrancer of the Exchequer, so called from its being the inquest of John de Kirby, treasurer to King Edward I, Jac. Law Dict....
L.S.
L.S. See LOCUS SIGILLI....
Lambard's archaionomia
Lambard's archaionomia, a work printed in 1568, containing the Anglo-Saxon laws, and those of William the Conqueror and of Henry I....
Le Roy n'est lie par aucun statut s'il ne fut expressenment nomme
Le Roy n'est lie par aucun statut s'il ne fut expressenment nomme.-(The King is not bound by any statute unless he be expressly named therein, as, e.g., in the Patents, etc., Act, 1883, and the Interpretation Act, 1889.)...
Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court. see INNS OF COURT....
Lambard's eirenarcha
Lambard's eirenarcha, a work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which having gone through two editions, one in 1572, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599....
Le Roy (or la Reine) s'avisera
Le Roy (or la Reine) s'avisera.-[The King (or the Queen) will consider of it.] The form of words used to express a denial of the royal assent....
Leeman's Acts
Leeman's Acts. (English) So called-after the introducer, Mr. George Leeman, M.P. for York City. (1) The Banking Companies (Shares) Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 29), by which contracts for sale of bank shares are void unless the numbers of the shares sold are set forth in the contract; this Act is believed to be a dead letter on the Stock Exchanges, but is in full legal force, Neilson v. James, (1882) 9 QBD 546. (2) The Borough Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 91), much amended (see BOROUGH FUND) by the Borough Funds Act, 1903-authorising the application of the funds of municipal corporations, and other governing bodies, under certain conditions, towards promoting or opposing Parliamentary and other proceedings for the benefit or protection of the inhabitants. See now Local Government Act, 1933 (22 & 33 Geo. 5, c. 51), which repeals the Act of 1903 except as to London....
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