A judicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right. The process bringing about and engaging in a lawsuit. Typically refers to trial court practice. … [Read more...]
LIVELODE
Maintenance; support. … [Read more...]
LITIGIOSITY
In Scotch law. The pendency of a suit; it is a tacit legal prohibition of alienation, to the disappointment of an action, or of diligence, the direct object of which is to obtain i possession, or to acquire the property of a particular subject The effect of it is analogous to that of inhibition. Bell. … [Read more...]
LIVERY
1. In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king's tenants in capite or tenants by knight's service. 2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward in chivalry, on reaching his majority, to obtain delivery of the possession of his lands out of the hands of the guardian. 2 Bl. Comm. 68. 3. A particular dress or garb appropriate or peculiar to certain persons, as … [Read more...]
LIQUOR
This term, when used in statutes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or Intoxicating liquors.See INTOXICATING LIQUOR; SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR. Liquor dealer. Dne who carries on the business of selling intoxicating liquors, either at wholesale or retail, and irrespective of whether the liquor sold is produced or manufactured by himself or by others; but there … [Read more...]