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Lighters
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LightersCommerce. Small vessels employed in loading and unloading larger vessels.
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Commerce
Latin commercium. In its simplest signification, an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labor, transportation, itelligence, care and various mediums of exchange, become commodities and enter into commerce. Gibbens v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 229 (1824), Marshall, Chief Justice. The interchange or mutual change of goods, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
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Lighterman
The owner or manager of a lighter. A lighterman is considered as a common Carrier.
Lights
Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of.
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Life-rent
Scotch law. A right to use and enjoy a thing during life, the substance of it being preserved. A life-rent cannot, therefore, be constituted upon things which perish in the use; and though it may upon subjects which gradually wear out by time, as household furniture, &c., yet it is generally applied to heritable subjects. Life-rents are divided into conventional and legal.
Lifestyle changes
A possible indicator of theft is the sudden change in lifestyle such as exhibiting more than usual wealth.
Ligan
Ligan or lagan. Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea in storms or shipwrecks, and remain there without coming to land, they are distinguished by the barbarous names of jetsam, flotsam, and ligan.
Ligeance
The true and faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government. It signifies also the territory of a soverqign.
Lighterman
The owner or manager of a lighter. A lighterman is considered as a common Carrier.
Lighters
Lights
Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of.
Limbs
Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law.
Limitation
Estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the contingency shall happen, upon which the estate is to fail, this is denom-inated a limitation; as, when land is granted to a man while he continues unmarried, or until the rents and profits shall have made a certain sum, and the like; in these cases the estate is limited, that is, it does not go beyond the happening of the contingency.
Limitation of shipowners' liability
The ancient right of shipowners, later extended to charterers, managers, salvors and insurers of ships, to limit their liability for certain maritime claims, either to a sum representing the value of the vessel and pending freight after the casualty, or to a sum determined by the tonnage of the vessel, depending upon the jurisdiction concerned and the applicable or national law.
Limited company
All companies have limited liability except for those incorporated as unlimited companies. The latter are rarely encountered and tend only to be used to serve specific tax or accounting arrangements.
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Commerce
Latin commercium. In its simplest signification, an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labor, transportation, itelligence, care and various mediums of exchange, become commodities and enter into commerce. Gibbens v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 229 (1824), Marshall, Chief Justice. The interchange or mutual change of goods, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
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Lighterman
The owner or manager of a lighter. A lighterman is considered as a common Carrier.
Lights
Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of.
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Life-rent
Scotch law. A right to use and enjoy a thing during life, the substance of it being preserved. A life-rent cannot, therefore, be constituted upon things which perish in the use; and though it may upon subjects which gradually wear out by time, as household furniture, &c., yet it is generally applied to heritable subjects. Life-rents are divided into conventional and legal.
Lifestyle changes
A possible indicator of theft is the sudden change in lifestyle such as exhibiting more than usual wealth.
Ligan
Ligan or lagan. Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea in storms or shipwrecks, and remain there without coming to land, they are distinguished by the barbarous names of jetsam, flotsam, and ligan.
Ligeance
The true and faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government. It signifies also the territory of a soverqign.
Lighterman
The owner or manager of a lighter. A lighterman is considered as a common Carrier.
Lighters
Lights
Those openings in a wall which are made rather for the admission of light, than to look out of.
Limbs
Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law.
Limitation
Estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the contingency shall happen, upon which the estate is to fail, this is denom-inated a limitation; as, when land is granted to a man while he continues unmarried, or until the rents and profits shall have made a certain sum, and the like; in these cases the estate is limited, that is, it does not go beyond the happening of the contingency.
Limitation of shipowners' liability
The ancient right of shipowners, later extended to charterers, managers, salvors and insurers of ships, to limit their liability for certain maritime claims, either to a sum representing the value of the vessel and pending freight after the casualty, or to a sum determined by the tonnage of the vessel, depending upon the jurisdiction concerned and the applicable or national law.
Limited company
All companies have limited liability except for those incorporated as unlimited companies. The latter are rarely encountered and tend only to be used to serve specific tax or accounting arrangements.
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