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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

1. The act of launching a vessel; the movement of a vessel from the land into the water, especially the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built Homer v. The Lady of the Ocean, 70 Me. 352. 2. A boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; an open boat of large size used in any service; a lighter. … [Read more...] about LAUNCH

This word has been held to have "a very large retrospect as we say 'lately deceased' of one dead ten or twenty years." Per. Cur. 2 Show. 294. … [Read more...] about LATELY

Lat. In the civil law and old English practice. A lying hid; lurking, or concealment of the person. Dig. 42, 4, 7, 5; Bract fol. 126. … [Read more...] about LATITATIO