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2641 Etymology dictionary, p. legitimate (adj.).2
… parents legally married," from past participle of Old French legitimer and directly from Medieval Latin legitimatus, past participle of legitimare "make …
2642 Etymology dictionary, p. let (n.).2
… in legal contracts), late 12c., from archaic verb letten "to hinder," from Old English lettan "hinder, delay, impede," etymologically "make late," from Proto-Germanic …
2643 Etymology dictionary, p. levari facias.2
… debtor, legal Latin, literally "cause to be levied;" passive of levare "to raise" (from PIE root *legwh- "not heavy, having little weight") + second person singular present …
2644 Etymology dictionary, p. lex talionis (n.).2
1590s, legal Latin, "law of retaliation," an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, from lex "law" (see legal ) + talionis, genitive of talio "exaction of payment in kind" (see …
2645 Etymology dictionary, p. liability (n.).2
1790, originally a term in law; "condition of being legally liable" (the sense in limited liability ); see liable + -ity. General sense is from 1809; meaning "thing for which one is liable" is first attested 1842. Related: Liabilities .
2646 Etymology dictionary, p. libel (n.).2
… book; (legal) charge, claim; writ; written report" (13c.), from Latin libellus "a little book, pamphlet; petition, written accusation, complaint," diminutive of liber …
2647 Etymology dictionary, p. limitation (n.).2
… "restriction, legal limitation," and directly from Latin limitationem (nominative limitatio ), noun of action from past-participle stem of limitare "to bound …
2648 Etymology dictionary, p. liquidation (n.).2
… a legal term in reference to assets; of companies going out of business, 1869; of inconvenient groups of persons, "a killing, a wiping out," 1925 in communist writings …
2649 Etymology dictionary, p. litigation (n.).2
… ). Other legal terms in English from Latin lis included litiscontestation (15c.), litispendence (17c.).
2650 Etymology dictionary, p. locator (n.).2
… ," a legal term, from Latin locator "one who lets," agent noun from locare "to put, place, set," from locus "a place" (see locus ). As "one who settles upon land by legal right …
2651 Etymology dictionary, p. locum-tenens (n.).2
legal Latin, "one who holds the place (of another);" from locum, accusative of locus "place" (see locus ) + tenens, present participle of tenere "to hold" (from PIE root *ten- "to stretch").
2652 Etymology dictionary, p. loyal (adj.).3
… with legal, which maintains the Latin form; in most uses it has displaced Middle English leal, which is an older borrowing of the French word. For the twinning …
2653 Etymology dictionary, p. lucid (adj.).3
… medieval legal documents ( non est compos mentis, sed gaudet lucidis intervallis, etc.). The notion probably is of a period of calm and clear during a storm. Related …
2654 Etymology dictionary, p. lunacy (n.).2
… later legal use, any unsoundness of mind sufficient to render one incapable of civil transactions or management of one's affairs. Weakened figurative …
2655 Etymology dictionary, p. lunatic (n.).2
"lunatic person," late 14c., from lunatic (adj.). Originally one with lucid intervals; later, in legal use, a general term for a person of unsound mind.
2656 Etymology dictionary, p. lynch (v.).2
… ) without legal sanction," from earlier Lynch law (1811), in reference to such activity, which was likely named after William Lynch (1742-1820) of Pittsylvania …
2657 Etymology dictionary, p. lynch (v.).3
… "extra-legal execution by hanging" is evident by the 1880s, and after c. 1893 lynching mostly meant killings of blacks by white mobs (especially in retaliation …
2658 Etymology dictionary, p. malice (n.).2
… - ). In legal use, "a design or intention of doing mischief to another without justification or excuse" (1540s).
2659 Etymology dictionary, p. malicious (adj.).2
… - ). In legal use (early 14c., Anglo-French), it means "characterized by malice prepense " (see malice ).
2660 Etymology dictionary, p. manciple (n.).2
… by legal transfer" (compare emancipate ); also "a formal purchase, the legal purchase of a thing."