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LL.B., LL.M., AND LL.D.

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Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three academic degrees in law,bachelor, master, and doctor of laws. … [Read more...]

LOAN FOR USE OR COMMODATUM

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contracts. A bailment, or loan of an article for a certain time, to be used by the borrower, without paying for it. 2 Kent's Com. 446, 447. Sir William Jones defines it to be a bailment of a thing for a certain time, to be used by the borrower, without paying for it. Jones' Bailm. 118. According to the Louisiana Code, art. 2864, it is an agreement by which a person delivers a … [Read more...]

LITERIS OBLIGATIO

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In Roman law. The contract of nomen, which was constituted by writing, (scripturd.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re in personam, when a transaction was transferred from the daybook (adversaria) into the ledger (codex) in the form of a debt under the name or heading of the purchaser or debtor, (nomen;) and (2) a persond in personam, where a debt already standing under one … [Read more...]

LITTER

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Trash or garbage or other solid waste that has been disposed of improperly and usually carelessly within a public area, for example, an empty cigarette box on the street. … [Read more...]

LITIGANT

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A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones. … [Read more...]

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