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Definition of Legal Fiction See Fiction, Legal Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Legal Fiction in the Dictionaries, Legal Fiction in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal […]

Definition of Letter Of Licence An agreement between a debtor and Ins creditors that the latter should for a specified time suspend their claims, and allow the debtor to carry on his business at his own discretion. Down to the virtual abolition by the Debtors Act of arrest for debt, it also […]

Definition of Leave And Licence In an action for trespass it is a good defence to plead that the act complained of was done with the leave and licence i. e., the permission, of the plaintiff Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Leave And Licence in the […]

Definition of Legatarius Parti Ari Us A legatee to whom the testator had in his will instructed his heir to give a definite share of his universal succession (hereditas), called a legacy of partition (legatum partitionis) because the legatee divided the inheritance with the heir. (Roman law.) […]

Definition of Letters Of Administration Where a person possessed of property, whether real or personal, dies intestate, or without an executor, the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division will grant to a proper person an authority under the seal of the Court, called letters of administration, […]

Definition of Leave To Defend The leave granted to a defendant on a summons for judgment under Order XIV, who can show he has a good defence on the merits Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Leave To Defend in the Dictionaries, Leave To Defend in our […]

Definition of Legatum Legacy. Any gift from a deceased person. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Legatum in the Dictionaries, Legatum in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]

Definition of Letters Of Marque (or Mart) Extraordinary commissions issued, either in time of war or peace, by the Lords of the Admiralty, or the vice-admirals of a distant province, to the commanders of merchant ships, authorising reprisals for reparation of the damages sustained by them […]

Definition of Legacy A gift of personal property by will. The person to whom the property is given is called the legatee, and the gift or property is called a bequest. The legatee’s title to the legacy is not complete until the executor has assented to it(1) A specific legacy is a bequest of a…