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LETTERS OF REQUEST, Eng. eccl. law, An instrument by which a judge of an inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in favor of a court of a...

LETTER OP LICENSE, contracts. An instrument or writing made by creditors to their insolvent debtor, by which they bind themselves to allow him a longe...

LETTER OF CREDENCE, international law. A written instrument addressed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a state, to the sovereign or state to wh...

LETTER BOOK, commerce. A book containing the copies of letters written by a merchant or trader to his correspondents.2. After notice to the plaintiff ...

LETTER, contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out...

LESSOR. contr. He who grants a lease. Civ. Code of L. art. 2647.LESTAGE, Eng: law. Duties paid for unlading goods in port. Harg. L. Tr. 75.LET. Hinder...

LESION, contracts. In the civil law this term is used to signify the injury suffered, in consequence of inequality of situation, by one who does not r...

LEGITIME, civil law. That portion of a parent's estate of which he cannot disinherit his children, without a legal cause. The civil code of Louisi...

LEGISLATURE, government. That body of men in the state which has the power of making laws.2. By the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 1, a...

LEGALIS HOMO. A person who stands rectus in curia, who possesses all his civil rights. A lawful man. One who stands rectus in curia, not outlawed nor ...