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LAW DICTIONARY,

ADAPTED TO THE

CONSTITUTION AND LAWS'

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

AND OF THE

SEVERAL STATES OF THE AMERICAN UNION;

WITH

REFERENCES

TO

THE CIVIL AND OTHER SYSTEMS

OF

FOREIGN LAW.

BY JOHN BOUVIER.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. & J. W. JOHNSON, LAW BOOKSELLERS,
SUCCESSORS TO NICKLIN & JOHNSON,

NO. 5 MINOR STREET.

1839.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine,

By JOHN BOUVIER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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LAW DICTIONARY.

LABEL. A narrow slip of paper or parchment, affixed to a deed or writing hanging at or out of the This name is also given to

same.

an appending seal.

Ves. Jr. 436; 2 Ib. 170; Dane's
Ab. Index, h. t.

LAGA. The law; Magna Charta; hence Saxon-lage, Mercen-lage, Dane-lage, &c.

LAGAN. Vide Ligan.

LAMB. A ram, sheep or ewe under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216; S. C. 19 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 351.

LACHES. This word, derived from the French lacher, is nearly synonymous with negligence. In general, when a party has been guilty of laches in enforcing his right by great delay and lapse of LAND. This term comprehends time, this circumstance will at com- any ground, soil or earth whatsomon law prejudice, and sometimes ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, operate in bar of a remedy which it waters, marshes, furze and heath. is discretionary and not compulsory It has an indefinite extent upwards in the court to afford. In courts of as well as downwards; therefore equity also delay will generally pre- land, legally includes all houses and judice; 1 Chit. Pr. 786, and the other buildings standing or built on cases there cited; 8 Com. Dig. it; and downwards, whatever is in 684; 6 Johns. Ch. R. 360. But a direct line between the surface laches may be excused from igno- and the centre of the earth, such as rance of the party's rights. 2 Mer. mines of metals and fossils. 1 Inst. R. 362; 2 Ball & Beat. 104; from 4 a; Wood's Inst. 120; 2 Bl. Com. the obscurity of the transaction, 2 18; 1 Cruise on Real Prop. 58. In Sch. & Lef. 487; by the pendency a more confined sense the word land of a suit, 1 Sch. & Lef. 413; and is said to denote "frank tenement at where the party labours under a the least." Shepp. Touch. 92. In legal disability, as, insanity, cover- this sense, then, leaseholds cannot ture, infancy, and the like. And be said to be included under the no laches can be imputed to the pub- word lands. 3 Madd. Rep. 535. lic. 4 Mass. R. 522; 3 Serg. & The technical sense of the word Rawle, 291; 4 Henn. & Munf. 57; land is further explained by Shep1 Penna. R. 476. Vide 1 Supp. to pard, in his Touch. p. 88, thus:

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