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Loco parentis






Loco parentis

In the place of a parent.

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Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.



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Locatio operis faciendi
Contracts. A term used in the civil law. There are two kinds, first, the location operis faciendi, strictly so called, or the hire of labor and services; such as the hire of tailors to make clothes, and of jewelers to set gems, and of watchmakers to repair watches.Secondly, Locatio custodiae, or the receiving of goods on deposit for a reward, which is properly the hire of care and attention about the goods.

Locatio rei
Contracts. A term used in the civil law, which signifies the hiring of a thing. It is a contract by which one of the parties obligates himself to, give to the other the use and enjoyment, of a certain thing for a period of time agreed upon between them, and in consideration of a price which the latter binds himself to pay in return.

Location
1) Contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertained hire. 2) estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor general's office.

Locator
Civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it. 2nd. To guaranty to the hirer the free enjoyment of it. 3rd. To keep the thing hired in good order in such manner that the hirer may enjoy it. 4th. To warrant that the thing hired has not such defects as to destroy its use.

Lock-up house
A place used, temporarily as a prison.

Loco parentis

Locum tenens
He who holds the place of another, a deputy; as A B, locum tenens of C D, mayor of the city of Philadelphia.

Locus
The place where a thing is done.

Locus contractus
The place of the contract. In general, the law of the place where the contract is made, governs in everything which relates to the mode of construing it.

Locus criminis
The place of crime; where a crime was perpetrated.

Locus delicti
The place where the tort, offence, or injury bas been committed.

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