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The complainant or party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case corresponding to the plaintiff in actions at law. … [Read more...] about LIBELANT

In old English law. Livery; money paid for the delivery or use of a thing. In old Scotch law. Livery; a fee given to a servant or officer. Skene. Money, meat, drink, clothes, etc., yearly given and delivered by the lord to his domestic servants. Blount … [Read more...] about LIBERATIO

The law of retaliation an example of which is given in the law of Moses, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth 2. Jurists and writers on international law are divided as to the right of one nation punishing with death, by way of retaliation, the citizen's or subjects of another nation; in, the United States no example of such barbarity has ever been witnessed but, prisoners … [Read more...] about LEX TALIONIS

A party against whom a libel has been filed In an ecclesiastical court or In admiralty. … [Read more...] about LIBELEE

In the civil law. The extinguishment of a contract, by which he who was bound becomes free or liberated. Wolff, Inst. Nat … [Read more...] about LIBERATION