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Lapse
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LapseEcclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right or power to present or collate to a vacant benefice, from, a person vested with such right, to another, in consequence of some act of negligence of the former.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Transfer
Contracts The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter.
Forfeiture
A cancellation. A legal action whereby a contract purchaser following default loses all his interest in the property.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
Present
A gift, or wore properly the thing given. It is provided by the constitution of the United States, that "no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, [the United States] shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, or office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
Collate
To arrange in order; verify arrangement of pages before binding or fastening; put together.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Negligence
Contracts, torts. When considered in relation, to contracts, negligence may be divided into various degrees, namely, ordinary, less than ordinary, more than ordinary.
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Lapsed gift
A gift made in a will to a person who has died prior to the will-makers death.
Lapsed legacy
One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place for various reasons.
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Land mark
A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For removing a land mark an action lies.
Land tenant
He who actually possesses the land. He is technically called the terre-tenant.
Landlord
A person firm or company which grants a lease or licence to a tenant and is accordingly responsible for the landlord's obligations under the lease. The landlord may be the owner of the freehold or a leasehold interest that permits him to underlet. now-how as a term often covers matters such as new product plans, costings, materials, production information, financial status, accountancy information, consumer lists and business information.
Languidus
Practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff, when a defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or health. In that case the officer may and ought unquestionably to abstain from removing him, and may permit him to remain even in his own house, in the custody of a follower, though not named in the warrant, he keeping the key of the house in his possession the officer ought to remove him as soon is sufficiently recovered. If there be a doubt as to the state of health of the defendant, the officer should require the attendance and advice of some respectable medical man, and require him, at the peril of the consequences of misrepresentation, to certify in writing whether it be fit to remove the party, or take him to prison within the county.
Lapping
Stealing a customer payment and then using a subsequent customer payment to cover the previous customer's account. This overlapping payments creates a "float" of money that can be used as long as all payments are eventually posted. What usually occurs is that the lapping process builds up like a giant pyramid until it falls apart when not enough payments are available to cover the amounts owed.
Lapse
Lapsed gift
A gift made in a will to a person who has died prior to the will-makers death.
Lapsed legacy
One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place for various reasons.
Larceny
Criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away, by one person, of the mere personal goods, of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his, the taker's use, and make them his property, without the consent of the owner.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
Las partidas
The name of a code of Spanish law; sometimes called las siete partidas, or the seven parts, from the number of its principal divisions. It is a compilation from the civil law, the customary law of Spain, and the canon law. Such of its provisions is are applicable are in force in Louisiana, Florida, and Texas.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Transfer
Contracts The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter.
Forfeiture
A cancellation. A legal action whereby a contract purchaser following default loses all his interest in the property.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
Present
A gift, or wore properly the thing given. It is provided by the constitution of the United States, that "no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, [the United States] shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, or office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
Collate
To arrange in order; verify arrangement of pages before binding or fastening; put together.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Negligence
Contracts, torts. When considered in relation, to contracts, negligence may be divided into various degrees, namely, ordinary, less than ordinary, more than ordinary.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Lapsed gift
A gift made in a will to a person who has died prior to the will-makers death.
Lapsed legacy
One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place for various reasons.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Land mark
A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For removing a land mark an action lies.
Land tenant
He who actually possesses the land. He is technically called the terre-tenant.
Landlord
A person firm or company which grants a lease or licence to a tenant and is accordingly responsible for the landlord's obligations under the lease. The landlord may be the owner of the freehold or a leasehold interest that permits him to underlet. now-how as a term often covers matters such as new product plans, costings, materials, production information, financial status, accountancy information, consumer lists and business information.
Languidus
Practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff, when a defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or health. In that case the officer may and ought unquestionably to abstain from removing him, and may permit him to remain even in his own house, in the custody of a follower, though not named in the warrant, he keeping the key of the house in his possession the officer ought to remove him as soon is sufficiently recovered. If there be a doubt as to the state of health of the defendant, the officer should require the attendance and advice of some respectable medical man, and require him, at the peril of the consequences of misrepresentation, to certify in writing whether it be fit to remove the party, or take him to prison within the county.
Lapping
Stealing a customer payment and then using a subsequent customer payment to cover the previous customer's account. This overlapping payments creates a "float" of money that can be used as long as all payments are eventually posted. What usually occurs is that the lapping process builds up like a giant pyramid until it falls apart when not enough payments are available to cover the amounts owed.
Lapse
Lapsed gift
A gift made in a will to a person who has died prior to the will-makers death.
Lapsed legacy
One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place for various reasons.
Larceny
Criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away, by one person, of the mere personal goods, of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his, the taker's use, and make them his property, without the consent of the owner.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
Las partidas
The name of a code of Spanish law; sometimes called las siete partidas, or the seven parts, from the number of its principal divisions. It is a compilation from the civil law, the customary law of Spain, and the canon law. Such of its provisions is are applicable are in force in Louisiana, Florida, and Texas.
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