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  • LICENSEE. One to whom a license has been given. 1 M. Q. & S. 699 n.LICENTIA CONCORDANDI, estates, conveyancing, practice. When an action is brough...

  • LICENSE, contracts. A right given by some competent authority to do an act, which without such authority would be illegal. The instrument or writing w...

  • LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. The right to print and publish the truth, from good motives, and for justifiable ends. 3 Johns. Cas. 394.2. This right is secure...

  • LIBERTY. Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature.2. Liberty is...

  • LIBEL OF ACCUSATION. A term used in Scotland to designate the instrument which contains the charge against a person accused of a crime. Libels are of ...

  • LIBEL, libellus, criminal law. A malicious defamation expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken the memory ...

  • LIBEL, practice. A libel has been defined to be "the plaintiff's petition or allegation, made and exhibited in a judicial process, with some ...

  • LEX TALIONIS. The law of retaliation an example of which is given in the law of Moses, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, &c.2. Jurists and w...

  • LEX. The law. A law for the government of mankind in society. Among the ancient Romans, this word was frequently used as synonymous with right, jus. W...

  • LEVANT ET COUCHANT. This French phrase, which ought perhaps more properly to be couchant et levant, signifies literally rising and lying down. In law,...