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2661 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 …
2662 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 …
2663 Etymology dictionary, p. litigation (n.).2
… ). Other legal terms in English from Latin lis included litiscontestation (15c.), litispendence (17c.).
2664 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 …
2665 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").
2666 Etymology dictionary, p. loyal (adj.).2
… " (see legal ).
2667 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 …
2668 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 …
2669 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 …
2670 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.
2671 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 …
2672 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 …
2673 Etymology dictionary, p. malice (n.).2
… - ). In legal use, "a design or intention of doing mischief to another without justification or excuse" (1540s).
2674 Etymology dictionary, p. malicious (adj.).2
… - ). In legal use (early 14c., Anglo-French), it means "characterized by malice prepense " (see malice ).
2675 Etymology dictionary, p. manciple (n.).2
… by legal transfer" (compare emancipate ); also "a formal purchase, the legal purchase of a thing."
2676 Etymology dictionary, p. mandate (n.).2
… or legal order," from French mandat (15c.) and directly from Latin mandatum "commission, command, order," noun use of neuter past participle of mandare "to order …
2677 Etymology dictionary, p. manslaughter (n.).3
Etymologically it is comparable to Latin homicide, but in legal use usually it is distinguished from murder and restricted to "simple homicide, unlawful killing of another without malice either express or implied."
2678 Etymology dictionary, p. master (n.).4
… the legal language of the American colonies by 1705 in Virginia.
2679 Etymology dictionary, p. material (adj.).3
… , "of legal significance to the cause" (1580s).
2680 Etymology dictionary, p. matter-of-fact (adj.).2
… a legal term (1570s, translating Latin res facti ), "that which is fact or alleged fact; that portion of an inquiry concerned with the truth or falsehood of alleged …