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Definition of Law Society Formed in 1825, incorporated in 1831, and entrusted with the custody of the roll of solicitors, 1888.Since 1877 no person can be admitted as a solicitor unless he has obtained from the society a certificate that he has passed certain examinations. It issues the annual […]

Definition of Lawford V. Billericay Rural Council ((1903), L. R. 1 K. B. 779). Held, that if a corporation has accepted the benefit of necessary work done, or necessary goods supplied, it is liable to pay for the same, although the contract is not under seal Browse You might be interested in […]

Definition of Lay Days The days which are allowed by a charterparty for loading and unloading the ship. If the vessel is detained beyond the period allowed, demurrage becomes payable Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Lay Days in the Dictionaries, […]

Definition of Lay-fee Lands held in fee of a lay lord, as distinguished from lands held in frankalmoign Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Lay-fee in the Dictionaries, Lay-fee in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the […]

Definition of Laches Negligence or unreasonable delay in asserting or enforcing a right. The equitable doctrine that delay defeats equities, or that equity aids the vigilant and not the indolent. A Court of equity has always refused its aid to stale demands, where a party has slept upon his […]

Definition of Lapse As a general rule, when a person to whom property has been devised or bequeathed dies before the testator, the devise or bequest fails or lapses, and the property falls into residue. But if land is given to a person in tail who dies before the testator, leaving issue […]

Definition of Lagan When goods are cast into the sea as jetsam, and afterwards the ship perishes, and such goods are so heavy that they would sink to the bottom, and the mariners, to the intent to have them again, tie to them a buoy or cork or such other thing as will not sink…

Definition of Larceny The wrongful or fraudulent taking and carrying away without colour of right, of the personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to the taker’s own use, and make them his own property, without the consent of the owner. The Larceny […]

Definition of Lake V. Gibson ((1729), 1 Eq. Cas. Ab. 294, pi. 3). Five persons purchased West Thorock Level from the Commissioners of the Sewers, and the conveyance was to them as joint tenants in fee, but they contributed ratably to the purchase, which was made with the intent of draining the […]

Definition of Lata Oulpa Dolo Aequiparatur Gross negligence is equivalent to fraud. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Lata Oulpa Dolo Aequiparatur in the Dictionaries, Lata Oulpa Dolo Aequiparatur in our legal dictionaries, Related […]