A portion of ground containing four oxgangs, and every oxgang fourteen acres. Cowell. This is the same with what in Scotland was called "pound land" of old extent Wharton. … [Read more...] about LIBRATA TERRAE
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LICERE, LICERI
Latin: In Roman law. To offer a price for a thing; to bid for it … [Read more...] about LICERE, LICERI
LIBERTICIDE
A destroyer of liberty. … [Read more...] about LIBERTICIDE
LIBRIPENS
In Roman law. A weigher or balance holder. The person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancipation per ws et libram. Inst. 2, 10, 1. Librornnt appellatione continentnr omnia volumina, sive in charta, sive in membrana sint, sive in qnavis alia materia. Under the name of books are contained all volumes, whether upon paper, or parchment, or any other material. Dig. … [Read more...] about LIBRIPENS
LIBERTIES
Privileged districts exempt from the sheriffs jurisdiction; as, "gaol liberties" or "Jail liberties." See GAOL. Libertinnm ingratnm leges eiviles la pristiaam servitutem redigunt; sed leges Anglim semel manamissum semper libernm judieant. Co. Litt 137. The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England regard a man once manumitted as … [Read more...] about LIBERTIES