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LOG BOOK. A ship's journal. It contains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the vovage. 1 M...

LOCUM TENENS. He who holds the place of another, a deputy; as A B, locum tenens of C D, mayor of the city of Philadelphia.LOCUS. The place where a thi...

LOCATIO OPERIS FACIENDI, contracts. A term used in the civil law. There are two kinds, first, the location operis faciendi, strictly so called, or the...

LOCAL. Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or courts whose jurisdiction is limited ...

LOAN FOR CONSUMPTION, or, MUTUTUM. (q. v.) A contract by which the owner of a personal chattel, called the lender, delivers it to another, known as th...

LITISPENDENCE. The part of an action being depending and undetermined; the time during which an action is pending. See Lis pendens.LITRE. A French mea...

LISTERS. This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Verm. Rev. Stat. 538.LITERAL CONTRA...

LIRA. The name of a foreign coin. In all computations at the custom house, the lira of Sardinia shall be estimated at eighteen cents and six mills. Ac...

LINE, measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch.LINE, estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border...

LINE, descents. The series of persons who have descended from a common ancestor, placed one under the other, in the order of their birth. It connects ...