Legal Terms- L

Question 1

LACHES

Answer 1

The failure to diligently assert a right which results in a refusal to allow relief.

Question 2

LANDLORD AND TENANT

Answer 2

A phrase used to denote the legal relation existing between the owner and occupant of real estate.

Question 3

LARCENY

Answer 3

Stealing personal property belonging to another.

Question 4

LATENT

Answer 4

Hidden; that which does not appear on the face of a thing.

Question 5

LAW

Answer 5

Includes constitutional, statutory, and decisional law.

Question 6

LAWYER-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

Answer 6

(1) a “client” is a person, public officer, or corporation, association, or other organization or entity, either public or private, who is rendered professional legal services by a lawyer, or who consults a lawyer with a view to obtaining professional legal services from him; (2) a “lawyer” is a person authorized or reasonably believed by a client to be authorized to practice law in any state or nation; (3) a “representative of the lawyer” is one employed to assist the lawyer in rendition of professional legal services; (4) a communication is “confidential” if not intended to be disclosed to third persons other than those to whom disclosure is in furtherance of the rendition of professional legal services to the client or those reasonably necessary for the transmission of the communication.

Question 7

GENERAL RULE OF PRIVILEGE

Answer 7

A client has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications made for the purpose of facilitating the rendition of professional legal services to the client, (1) between himself or his representative and his lawyer or his lawyer’s representative, or (2) between his lawyer and the lawyer’s representative, (3) by him or his lawyer to a lawyer representing another in a matter of common interest, or (4) between representatives of the client or between the client and a representative of the client, or (5) between lawyers representing the client.

Question 8

LEADING QUESTION

Answer 8

Question that suggests to the witness the answer that the examining party desires.

Question 9

LEASE

Answer 9

A contract by which one conveys real estate for a limited time usually for a specified rent; personal property also may be leased.

Question 10

LEGISLATION

Answer 10

The act of enacting laws.

Question 11

LEGITIMATE

Answer 11

Lawful.

Question 12

LESSEE

Answer 12

One to whom a lease is given.

Question 13

LESSOR

Answer 13

One who grants a lease.

Question 14

LEVY

Answer 14

A collecting or exacting by authority.

Question 15

LIABLE

Answer 15

Responsible; bound or obligated in law or equity.

Question 16

LIBEL (v.)

Answer 16

To defame or injure a person’s reputation by a published writing.

Question 17

LIBEL (n.)

Answer 17

The initial pleading on the part of the plaintiff in an admiralty proceeding.

Question 18

LIEN

Answer 18

A hold or claim which one person has upon the property of another as a security for some debt or charge.

Question 19

LIQUIDATED

Answer 19

Fixed; settled.

Question 20

LIS PENDENS

Answer 20

A pending civil or criminal action.

Question 21

LITERAL

Answer 21

According to the language.

Question 22

LITIGANT

Answer 22

A party to a lawsuit.

Question 23

LITATION

Answer 23

A judicial controversy.

Question 24

LOCUS

Answer 24

A place.

Question 25

LOCUS DELICTI

Answer 25

Place of the crime.

Question 26

LOCUS POENITENTIAE

Answer 26

THe abandoning or giving up one’s intention to commit some crime before it is fully completed or abandoning a conspiracy before its purpose is accomplished.