Tag: LE
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Lease By Estoppel
Definition of Lease By Estoppel If a person makes a lease of land in which he has no interest, and he afterwards acquires the land, he is estopped or precluded from denying the existence of the lease Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Lease By […]
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Legatum Poenae Nomine
Definition of Legatum Poenae Nomine A legacy by way of penalty, to constrain the heir to do or not to do something. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Legatum Poenae Nomine in the Dictionaries, Legatum Poenae Nomine in our legal […]
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Lex Domicilii
Definition of Lex Domicilii The law of the place of a person’s domicil (q.v.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Lex Domicilii in the Dictionaries, Lex Domicilii in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia […]
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Lex Loci Contractus
Definition of Lex Loci Contractus The law of a place where a contract is made Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Lex Loci Contractus in the Dictionaries, Lex Loci Contractus in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]
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Leaseholds
Definition of Leaseholds Lands held under a lease for years. They are personal estate, being chattels real. Leaseholds are transferable by assignment and the assignee is liable to the lessor on the covenants in the lease which run with the land so long as he holds under the lease. (See […]
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Leges Poster Iores Priores Contrarias Abrogant
Definition of Leges Poster Iores Priores Contrarias Abrogant Later laws abrogate prior contrary laws Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Leges Poster Iores Priores Contrarias Abrogant in the Dictionaries, Leges Poster Iores Priores Contrarias Abrogant […]
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Lex Morten
Definition of Lex Morten si a (B.C. 287) provided that plebiscita should bind the whole people equally with leges. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Lex Morten in the Dictionaries, Lex Morten in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, […]
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Leave And Licence
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 […]
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Legitimacy
Definition of Legitimacy The condition of being born in lawful wedlock. Under the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 188, a natural-born subject of Great Britain may apply to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division for a declaration that he is legitimate, or that his parents or grandparents were […]
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Lex Hostilia
Definition of Lex Hostilia Permitted an action of theft to be brought on account of persons who were among the enemy or away in the service of the commonwealth or who were in the tutela of some person bringing the action (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]