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Lunatic
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LunaticPersons. One who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one who has had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not.
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Lost
What was once possessed and cannot now be found.
Reason
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends
Lunatic
Persons. One who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one who has had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not.
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Lunacy
Medical jur. A disease of the mind, which is differently defined as it applies to a class of disorders, or only to one species of them. As a general term it includes all the varieties of mental, disorders, not fatuous.
Lunar
That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month.
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Lugano convention
1988- The Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, adopted at Lugano on September 16, 1988 (O.J.E.C. 1988 L 391/1) and in force as of May 1, 1992, establishes uniform rules on jurisdictionand the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters as between the States of the European Union (supra) and those of E.F.T.A. (the European Free Trade Association, made up of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland).
Luggage
Such things as are carried by a traveller, generally for his personal accommodation; baggage. In England this word is generally used in the same sense that baggage is used in the United States.
Lump-sum alimony
A spousal support that is ordered to be paid in a fixed amount. the completion of the payment may be made in installments. (see spousal support section).
Lunacy
Medical jur. A disease of the mind, which is differently defined as it applies to a class of disorders, or only to one species of them. As a general term it includes all the varieties of mental, disorders, not fatuous.
Lunar
That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month.
Lunatic
Lying in grant
Incorporeal rights and things which cannot be transferred by livery of possession, but which exist only in idea, in contemplation of law, are said to lie in grant, and pass by the mere delivery of the deed.
Lying in wait
"Being in ambush for the purpose of murdering another. Lying in wait is evidence of deliberation and intention.
Lynch law
The action of private individuals, organized bodies of men, or disorderly mobs, who, without legal authority, punish by hanging, or otherwise, real or suspected criminals, without trial according to the forms of law. American lexicographers refer to the origin of the term to the practice, in the seventeenth century, of a Virginia farmer named Lynch.
Lynch-law
A common phrase used to express the vengeance of a mob, inflicting an injury, and committing an outrage upon a person suspected of some offence. In England this is called Lidford Law.
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Lost
What was once possessed and cannot now be found.
Reason
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends
Lunatic
Persons. One who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one who has had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Lunacy
Medical jur. A disease of the mind, which is differently defined as it applies to a class of disorders, or only to one species of them. As a general term it includes all the varieties of mental, disorders, not fatuous.
Lunar
That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Lugano convention
1988- The Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, adopted at Lugano on September 16, 1988 (O.J.E.C. 1988 L 391/1) and in force as of May 1, 1992, establishes uniform rules on jurisdictionand the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters as between the States of the European Union (supra) and those of E.F.T.A. (the European Free Trade Association, made up of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland).
Luggage
Such things as are carried by a traveller, generally for his personal accommodation; baggage. In England this word is generally used in the same sense that baggage is used in the United States.
Lump-sum alimony
A spousal support that is ordered to be paid in a fixed amount. the completion of the payment may be made in installments. (see spousal support section).
Lunacy
Medical jur. A disease of the mind, which is differently defined as it applies to a class of disorders, or only to one species of them. As a general term it includes all the varieties of mental, disorders, not fatuous.
Lunar
That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month.
Lunatic
Lying in grant
Incorporeal rights and things which cannot be transferred by livery of possession, but which exist only in idea, in contemplation of law, are said to lie in grant, and pass by the mere delivery of the deed.
Lying in wait
"Being in ambush for the purpose of murdering another. Lying in wait is evidence of deliberation and intention.
Lynch law
The action of private individuals, organized bodies of men, or disorderly mobs, who, without legal authority, punish by hanging, or otherwise, real or suspected criminals, without trial according to the forms of law. American lexicographers refer to the origin of the term to the practice, in the seventeenth century, of a Virginia farmer named Lynch.
Lynch-law
A common phrase used to express the vengeance of a mob, inflicting an injury, and committing an outrage upon a person suspected of some offence. In England this is called Lidford Law.
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