Lat. An arbitrament or award. In old Scotch law. Sentence or judgment; dome or doom. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 8. … [Read more...] about LAUDUM
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LANGEOLUM
An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Mon. Angl. 410. … [Read more...] about LANGEOLUM
LARCENY
In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious Intent to convert them to his (the taker's) use, and make them his property, without the consent of the owner. State v. South, 28 N. J. Law, 31, 75 Am. Dec. 25tT; State v. Chambers, 22 W. Va. 786, 46 Am. Rep. 550 ; State v. … [Read more...] about LARCENY
LANGUAGE
The faculty which men possess of communicating their perceptions and ideas to one another by means of articulate sounds. This is the definition of spoken language; but ideas and perceptions may be communicated without sound by writing, and this is called written language. By conventional usage certain sounds have a definite meaning in one country or in certain countries, and … [Read more...] about LANGUAGE
LARDARIUS REGIS
The king's larderer, or clerk of the kitchen. Cowell. … [Read more...] about LARDARIUS REGIS