A

DICTIONARY

OF

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LAW.

WITH

DEFINITIONS OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS OF
THE CANON AND CIVIL LAWS.

ALSO, CONTAINING

A FULL COLLECTION OF LATIN MAXIMS;

AND CITATIONS OF UPWARDS OF FORTY THOUSAND REPORTED CASES,
IN WHICH WORDS AND PHRASES HAVE BEEN JUDICIALLY

DEFINED OR CONSTRUED.

VOL. II.

BY

STEWART RAPALJE AND ROBERT L. LAWRENCE.

JERSEY CITY, N. J.:
FREDERICK D. LINN & CO.,

Jaw Publishers and Booksellers.

1888.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883. by

STEWART RAPALJE and ROBERT L. LAWRENCE,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

LAW DICTIONARY.

L. S.-See LOCUS SIGILLI.

L.

who had no means of living; or against such
as, having served in the winter, refused to serve

L. S., (meaning of). 5 Pick. (Mass.) 497; 5 in the summer. Reg. Orig. 189.
Johns. (N. Y.) 239.

LA CHAMBRE DES ESTEILLES.—
The star-chamber,

LAAS.-A net, gin, or snare.

LABEL.—(1) Anything appended to a larger writing, as a codicil. (2) A narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writ, in order to hold the appending seal. (3) A term of heraldry. (4) A slip of paper put upon a package or parcel containing a description of the contents of such package or parcel.

LABORERS.-Servants in husbandry

or manufactures, not living intra mania. (See DOMESTICS.) These are sometimes engaged by the day or week, but, in England, are understood to be hired for a year where no particular time is limited, and And the wages are so much per annum. with respect to these, regulation is made by various acts of parliament, which vest in the justices of the peace the power of compelling persons not having any visible livelihood to go out to service in husPro-bandry, or in certain specific trades, for also, to empower the justices to determine the promotion of honest industry; and, differences arising between such laborers and their masters. See MASTER AND SERVANT.

LABORER, (defined). 34 Cal. 302; 82 Pa. St.

469.

(who is). 5 How. (N. Y.) Pr. 454; 5 Binn. (Pa.) 169; 4 Best & S. 927.

LABINA.-In old records, watery land.
LABOR.-Labor has been distinguished
into productive and unproductive.
ductive is employed in creating perma-
nent utilities, whether embodied in human
beings or in any other animate or inanimate
objects. Unproductive does not terminate
in the creation of material wealth, and,
however largely or successfully practiced,
does not render the community and the
world at large richer in material products,
but poorer by all that is consumed by the
laborers while so employed. (1 Mill. Pol.
Ec. 33.) The greatest improvements in
the productive powers of labor, and the (N. J.) 590.
greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judg-
ment with which it is anywhere directed
or applied, seem to have been the effects
of the division of labor. "Labor,” observed
Adam Smith, (Wealth of Nat. b. 1, c. v.,)
"is the real measure of the exchangeable
value of all commodities."

LABOR, (in a statute). 10 Hun (N. Y.) 18;
76 N. Y. 50.

(in an .nsurance policy). 12 East 648. (not synonymous with "business," or "work"). 2 Ohio St. 387.

LABOR, PERSONAL, (what is not). 1 Barn. &

Ad. 568.

LABORARIIS.-An ancient writ against persons who refused to serve and do labor, and

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(who is not). 39 Mich. 47, 594; 38 Barb. (N. Y.) 390; 24 N. Y. 481; 81 N. C. 340; (equivalent to "employé"). 3 Stew.

77 Pa. St. 107.

4 Com.
T. 219.

(in an indictment applied to a female). Dig. 666 n.

(in lien law). 77 Pa. St. 107; 2 Utah (in a statute). 24 N. Y. 482; 8 East LABORER OR SERVANT, (in a statute). 16 Hun (N. Y.) 186, 188.

124.

LABORER OR WORKMAN, (in mechanics' lien law). 84 Pa. St. 168; 24 Am. Rep. 189. LABORERS, (in railroad charter). 5 How. (N. Y.) Pr. 454.

LACE.-A measure of land equal to one pole. This term is widely used in Cornwall LACERTA.-In old records, a fathom. LACHES.-Negligence or unreasonable delay in asserting or enforcing a right. 2v