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Ley-gager






Ley-gager

Wager of Law.

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Wager
1) Wager of Battel. A superstitious mode of trial which till lately disgraced the English law.2) Wager policy.Contracts.One made when the insured has no insurable interest

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.



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Lex solutionis
The law of the place of performance.

Lex talionis
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, &c.

Lex terae
The law of the land. The phrase is used to distinguisb this from the civil or Roman law.

Lex terrę
The law of the land.

Lex vigilantibus favet
The law sustains the watchful.

Ley-gager

Liability policy
As opposed to an indemnity policy, the liability policy covers the insured against his responsibility and does not require that he have first paid the claim.

Liability.
Responsibility; the state of one who is bound in law and justice to do sometbing which may be enforced by action. This liability may arise from contracts either express or implied, or in consequence of torts committed.

Liable
Legally responsible.

Libel
1) Practice. A libel has been defined to be "the plaintiff's petition or allegation, made and exhibited in a judicial process, with some solemnity of law;" it is also, said to be "a short and well ordered writing, setting forth in a clear manner, as well to the judge as to the defendant, the plaintiff's or accuser's intention in judgment." It is a written statement by a plaintiff, of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks to obtain in a suit. Law's Ecclesiastic. 2) Libellus, criminal law. A malicious defamation expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, with intent to provoke the living; or the reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule.

Libel of accusation
A term used in Scotland to designate the instrument which contains the charge against a person accused of a crime. Libels are of two kinds, namely, indictments and crimiual letters.

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