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Loyal






Loyal

Legal; according to law; as, loyal matrimony, a lawful marriage; at- tached to the existing law.

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Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.

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.

Loyal
Legal; according to law; as, loyal matrimony, a lawful marriage; at- tached to the existing law.

Matrimony
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.

Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.

Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.



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Loyalty
That which adheres to the law, that which sustains an existing government.



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Loyal

Loyalty
That which adheres to the law, that which sustains an existing government.

Loyola maritime law journal
A maritime law review published by Loyola University New Orleans.

Lucid interval
Medical jur. That space of time between two fits of insanity, during which a person non compos mentis is completely restored to the perfect enjoyment of reason upon every subject upon which the mind was previously cognizant.

Lucre
Gain, profit.

Lucri causa
This is a Latin expression, which signifies that the thing to which it applies is done for the sake of gain.

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