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Locum tenens






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.

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

Mayor
Officer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title.

City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.



SIMILAR TERMS
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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.

Locus in quo
The place in which. In pleadings it is the place where any- thing is alleged to have been done.

Locus poenitentiae
Contracts, criminal law. Literally this signifies a place of repentance; in law, it is the opportunity of withdrawing from a projected contract, before the parties are finally bound; or of abandoning the intention of committing a crime, before it has been completed.

Locus poenitentię
Place for repentance: an interval or opportunity in which to reconsider and withdraw, as, from a proposed contract, or from an unlawful action.

Locus regit actum
The place governs the act: the law of the locality regulates the thing to be done.

Locus rei sitae
The place where a thing is situated. In proceedings in rem, in real actions in the civil law, or: those which have for their object the recovery of a thing; and in real actions in the common law, or those for the recovery of land, the proper forum is the locus rei sitae.

Locus rei sitę
The place of the situation of a thing.

Locus sigilli
The place of the seal. In many of the states, instead of sealing deeds, writs, and other papers or documents requiring it, a scroll is made in which the letters L. S. are printed or written, which is an abbreviation of Locus Sigilli. This in some of the states has all the efficacy of a seal, but in others it has no such effect.

Locus standi
Place for standing: right to be heard.



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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
In the place of a parent.

Locum tenens

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.

Locus in quo
The place in which. In pleadings it is the place where any- thing is alleged to have been done.

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