L

An underground survey. … [Read more...] about LATCHING

Lat. In Roman law. A class of freedmen (libertini) intermediate between the two other classes of freedmen called, respectively, "Gives Romani" and "Dediticii." Slaves under thirty years of age at the date of their manumission, or manumitted otherwise than by vindicta, census, or testamentum, or not the quiritary property of their manumissors at the time of manumission, were … [Read more...] about LATINI JUNIANI

A kind of offensive weapon, now disused, and prohibited by 7 Rich. II. c. 13. … [Read more...] about LAUNCEGAY

Defunct: existing recently but now dead. … [Read more...] about LATE

In old English practice. A writ which Issued in personal actions, on the return of non est inventus to a bill of Middlesex ; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in which it was "testified that the defendant lurks [latitat] and wanders about" in the county. 3 Bl. Comm. 286. Abolished by St 2 Wm. IV. c. 39. … [Read more...] about LATITAT