The right to use and enjoy property for the duration of one's life. Typically this refers to a grant of real property where the person may live and enjoy the property during their lifetime but has no rights to sell or convey the property after death. Frequently used to keep property within a family. … [Read more...] about LIFE ESTATE
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LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT
Medical procedures that will only prolong one's life temporarily and temporarily suspend death or prolong a comatose state. … [Read more...] about LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT
LIEFTENANT
An old form of "lieutenant," and still retained as the vulgar pronunciation of the word. … [Read more...] about LIEFTENANT
LIEGE
In feudal law. Bound by a feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who owned no superior. In old records. Full; absolute; perfect; pure. Liege widowhood was pure widowhood. Cowell. Liege homage. Homage which, when performed by one sovereign prince to another, included fealty and services, as opposed to simple homage, which was a mere acknowledgment of tenure. … [Read more...] about LIEGE
LIEGE POUSTIE
Scotch law. The condition or state of a person who is in his ordinary health and capacity, and not a minor, nor cognosced as an idiot or madman, nor under interdiction. He is then said to be in Iiege poustie, or in legitima potestati, and he has full power of disposal of his property. … [Read more...] about LIEGE POUSTIE