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Jus postliminii. The right of return, reprisal, (or) recovery.

Jus prædicti S et seisinam ipsius. The right of the aforesaid S and his seisin.

Jus precarium. A right by courtesy-granted upon request.

Jus proprietatis. The right of property.

Jus prosequendi in judicio quod alicui debetur. The right of proceeding to judgment for what is due to any one.

Jus suum. His own right.

Justiciarii ad omnia placita. Judges of all pleas. Justiciarii domini regis faciant fieri recognitionem de dissaisinis factis super assisam, a tempore quo dominus rex venit in Angliam proxime post pacem factam inter ipsum et regem filium suum. That the judges of our lord the king cause recognition to be made of the disseisins, made upon assize from the time that our lord the king arrived in England, until the peace made between him and the king his son.

Justiciarii in itinere. Judges in eyre.

Justiciarii itinerantes venerunt apud Vigorniam in octavis Sancti Johannis Baptista;-et totus comitatus eos admittere recusavit, quod septem anni nondum erant elapsi, postquam justiciarii ibidem ultimo sederunt. The judges in eyre came to Worcester on the octave of Saint John the Baptist;-and the whole county refused to admit them, because seven years had not elapsed since the judges last sat in the same place.

Jus trium liberorum. The right of three children.

Jus venandi, et piscandi. The right of hunting and fishing.

Juxta formam statuti. According to the form of the statute.

K.

Kar' eoxv. Excellent; most choice.

Kercke; Kircke; Kirkia; Kurk. A church. Koivos. Common; public.

Koμnçoμioσov. A bond; an engagement.

Κομπςομίσσον.

Koning; Kyninge,

a king.

A count; a constable;

Kaßexλelov. A bed-chamber.

Kugla olxos.

The house of the Lord.

L.

Laches. Neglect; indolence.
Laga. Law.

Laicos privilegio universitatis gaudentis. Laymen enjoying the privilege of the university. La loi de Mahomet confonde l'usance avec le prêt à intérêt. L'usure augmente dans les pais Mahometans à proportion de la séverité de la defence: le prêteur s'indemnise du peril de la contravention. The law of Mahomet confounds usance with the loan at interest. Usury increases in the Mahomedan countries, in proportion to the

severity of the prohibition: the lender indemnifies himself against the danger of obstruction. Languidus, vel mortuus est. He is sick or

dead.

Las partidas. The partitions.

Latitat.

He lies hid.

Latitat et discurrit. He lurks and runs here and there.

Latrocinium. Larceny.

Latroni eum similem habuit, qui furtum celare vellet, et occulte sine judice compositionem ejus admittere. The law held him as bad as a thief, who was willing to conceal the theft, and privately to accept a composition without bringing the thief to justice.

Leges non scripta. The unwritten (or traditional) laws.

Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant. The laws last enacted repeal the laws before enacted to the contrary.

Leges sola memoria et usu retinebant. They retained their laws solely by memory and cus

tom.

Leges sub graviori lege. Laws subject to a superior law.

Legibus patriæ optime instituti. They who were best instructed in the laws of the country. Legitimo matrimonio copulati. Joined in law ful matrimony.

Le grand Coustumier. The great book of Customs.

H

Legum Anglicanarum conditor. The founder of the English law.

Legum Anglicanarum restitutor.

storer of the English laws.

The re

Le reason est, quia le keeping del cheval est un charge, quia il mange: mes le keeping del apparel n'est ascum charge. Quod tota curia concessit. The reason is that the keeping of a horse is an expense, because he eats: but the keeping of clothes' is of no expense. Which the whole court granted.

Le roy le veut. The king wills it.

Le roy remercie ses loyal subjects, accepte leur benevolence, et aussi le veut. The king thanks his loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence, and wills it to be so.

Le roy

upon it.

s'avisera.

The king will advise

Les juges sont sages personnes et autentiques,→ sicome les archevesques, evesques, les chanoines des eglises cathedraulx, et les autres personnes qui ont dignitez in saincte eglise; les abbez, les prieurs conventaulx, et les gouverneurs des eglises, &c. The judges are wise and approved characters, such as the archbishops, bishops, the monks of the cathedral churches and the other persons who hold dignities in the holy church; abbots, priors of convents, and the governors of churches, &c.

Les loix extrêmes dans le bien font naitre le mal extrême; il falut payer pour le prêt de l'ar

gent et pour le danger des peines de la loi. Laws extreme in good produce the greatest evil; we must pay for the loan of money, and for the danger of the penalties of the law,

Les prelats, seigneurs, et commons, ence present parliament assemblées, au nom de touts vous autres subjects, remercient tres humblement votre majesté, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bone vie et longue. The prelates, lords and commons in this parliament assembled, in the name of all your other subjects, most humbly thank your majesty, and pray to God to grant you good health and long life.

Le subpoena, ne serroit my cy soventement use come il est ore, si nous attendomus tiels actions sur les cases, et mainteinomus le jurisdiction de ceo court, et d'auter courts. The subpoena would not be so often used as it is, if we bring such ac tions upon the cases, and maintain the jurisdiction of this court and of the other courts.

Lettres de cachet.

letters.

Sealed-letters; secret

Levantes et cubantes. Rising up and lying down.

Levari facias. That you cause to be levied. Levari facias de bonis ecclesiasticis. That you cause to be levied of the ecclesiastical goods. Lex Cornelia de sicariis. The Cornelian law, relating to assassins.

Lex et consuetudo parliamenti; ab omnibus quærenda, a multis ignorata, a paucis cognita. The

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