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Ll.b., l.m. or ll.d.
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Ll.b., l.m. or ll.d.The Latin abbreviations for the three classes of law degrees: the regular bachelor degree in law (LL.B.), the masters degree in law (LL.M.) and the doctorate in law (LL.D.). These are basic prerequisites to admission to the practice of law in many states.
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Degrees
Academical. Marks of distinction conferred on students, in testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences.
Degree
1) Descents. This word is derived from the French degre, which is itself taken from the Latin gradus, and signifies literally, a step in a stairway, or the round of a ladder. 2) measures. In angular measures, a degree is equal to sixty minutes, or the thirtieth part of a sine. 3) persons. By degree, is understood the state or condition of a person.
Admission
In corporations or companies. The act of the corporation or company by which an individual acquires the rights of a member of such corporation or company.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
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Livery
English law. 1) The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight's service. 2) Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to obtain the possession of seisin of his lands at the king's hands. 3) It signifies, in the third place, the clothes given by a nobleman or gentleman to his servant.
Livery of seisin
Estates. A delivery of possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, unto one entitled to the same. This was a ceremony used in the common law for the conveyance of real estate; and the livery was in deed, which was performed by the feoffor and the feoffee going upon the land, and the latter receiving it from the former; or in law, where the game was not made on the land, but in sight of it.
Living pledge
Living pledge or Vivum Vadium , contracts. When a man borrows a sum of money (suppose two hundred dollars) of another, and grants him an estate, as of twenty dollars per annum, to hold till the rents and profits shall repay the sum so borrowed.
Living trust
A trust set up and in effect during the lifetime of the grantor. (Also called inter vivos trust.)
Livre tournois
Common law. A coin used in France before the revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, &c., at eighteen and a half cents. Act of March 2, 1798,
Ll.b., l.m. or ll.d.
Lloyd's register of shipping
A parent organization which is the world's leading classification society. The Register of Ships contains details of some 83,000 merchant ships from around the world. For publications, contact Marine Information Publishing Group.
Load lines
Lines painted on the side of a ship, indicating the maximum depth to which the vessel may safely be loaded.
Loadmanage
Maritime law, contracts. The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship, and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in her way.
Loan
1) A loan in general implies that a thing is lent without reward; but, in some cases, a loan may be for a reward; as, the loan of money. 2) Contracts. The act by which a person lets another have a thing to be used by him gratuitously, and which is to be returned, either in specie or in kind, agreeably to the terms of the contract. The thing which is thus transferred is also called a loan.
Loan for consumption
Loan for consumption or mututum. A contract by which the owner of a personal chattel, called the lender, delivers it to another, known as the borrower, by which it is agreed that the borrower shall consume the chattel loaned, and return at the time agreed upon, another chattel, of the same quality, kind, and number, to the lender, either gratuitously or for a con- sideration; as, if Peter lends to Paul one bushel of wheat, to be used by the latter, so that it shall not be returned to Peter, but instead of which Paul will return to Peter another bushel of wheat of the same kind and quality, at a time agreed upon.
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Degrees
Academical. Marks of distinction conferred on students, in testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences.
Degree
1) Descents. This word is derived from the French degre, which is itself taken from the Latin gradus, and signifies literally, a step in a stairway, or the round of a ladder. 2) measures. In angular measures, a degree is equal to sixty minutes, or the thirtieth part of a sine. 3) persons. By degree, is understood the state or condition of a person.
Admission
In corporations or companies. The act of the corporation or company by which an individual acquires the rights of a member of such corporation or company.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
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Livery
English law. 1) The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight's service. 2) Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to obtain the possession of seisin of his lands at the king's hands. 3) It signifies, in the third place, the clothes given by a nobleman or gentleman to his servant.
Livery of seisin
Estates. A delivery of possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, unto one entitled to the same. This was a ceremony used in the common law for the conveyance of real estate; and the livery was in deed, which was performed by the feoffor and the feoffee going upon the land, and the latter receiving it from the former; or in law, where the game was not made on the land, but in sight of it.
Living pledge
Living pledge or Vivum Vadium , contracts. When a man borrows a sum of money (suppose two hundred dollars) of another, and grants him an estate, as of twenty dollars per annum, to hold till the rents and profits shall repay the sum so borrowed.
Living trust
A trust set up and in effect during the lifetime of the grantor. (Also called inter vivos trust.)
Livre tournois
Common law. A coin used in France before the revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, &c., at eighteen and a half cents. Act of March 2, 1798,
Ll.b., l.m. or ll.d.
Lloyd's register of shipping
A parent organization which is the world's leading classification society. The Register of Ships contains details of some 83,000 merchant ships from around the world. For publications, contact Marine Information Publishing Group.
Load lines
Lines painted on the side of a ship, indicating the maximum depth to which the vessel may safely be loaded.
Loadmanage
Maritime law, contracts. The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship, and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in her way.
Loan
1) A loan in general implies that a thing is lent without reward; but, in some cases, a loan may be for a reward; as, the loan of money. 2) Contracts. The act by which a person lets another have a thing to be used by him gratuitously, and which is to be returned, either in specie or in kind, agreeably to the terms of the contract. The thing which is thus transferred is also called a loan.
Loan for consumption
Loan for consumption or mututum. A contract by which the owner of a personal chattel, called the lender, delivers it to another, known as the borrower, by which it is agreed that the borrower shall consume the chattel loaned, and return at the time agreed upon, another chattel, of the same quality, kind, and number, to the lender, either gratuitously or for a con- sideration; as, if Peter lends to Paul one bushel of wheat, to be used by the latter, so that it shall not be returned to Peter, but instead of which Paul will return to Peter another bushel of wheat of the same kind and quality, at a time agreed upon.
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