LEGATEE. A legatee is a person to whom a legacy is given by a last will and testament.2. It is proposed to consider, 1. Who may be a legatee. 2. Under...
LEGAL. That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cest...
LEGACY, ACCUMULATIVE. An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the same kind of thi...
LAWYER. A counsellor; one learned in the law. Vide dttorney.LEGACY. A bequest or gift of goods or chattels by testament. 2 Bl. Com. 512; Bac. Abr. Leg...
LAWS OF OLERON, maritime law. A code of sea laws of deserved celebrity. It was originally promulgated by Eleonor, duchess of Guienne, the mother of Ri...
LAWS EX POST FACTO. Those which are made to punish actions committed before the existence of such laws, and which had not been declared crimes by prec...
LAW, PENAL. One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment.LAW, POSITIVE. Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be co...
LAW OF NATURE. The law of nature is that which God, the sovereign of the universe, has prescribed to all men, not by any formal promulgation, but by t...
LAW OF NATIONS. The science which teaches the rights subsisting between nations or states, and the obligations correspondent to those rights. Vattel&#...
LAW, CRIMINAL. By criminal law is understood that system of laws which provides for the mode of trial of persons charged with criminal offences, defin...