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- LADY DAY
- 25th March, Feast of the Annunciation. See also All Saints.
- LAND RECORDS
- Land records are deeds -- proof that a piece of land is owned by a particular individual. The information you receive from the records will vary, but you will at least get a name, the location of the property, and the period of ownership.
- LARDNER
- Official in charge of pig food
- LEET
- One of the manor courts held on the estate, the other being the court baron. It was presided over by the seneschall and each tenant paid leet silver, normally six pence, to the lord.
- LEGACY
- Money or property bequeathed to someone by will
- LEGATEE
- Someone who inherits money or property from a person who left a will.
- LETTERS PATENT
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A royal grant of property, status, title,
authority or privilege.
- LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
- Court document allowing the executor named in a will to carry out his or her duties.
- LIEN
- Claim placed on property by a person who is owed money.
- LIME BURNERS
- Lime was used for making building mortar, which was in demand for the cathedrals springing up all over the country. The Lime Burner had a thankless if important task, heating chalk in a kiln at 1,100C to make quicklime. The dust it produced could cause blindness and spontaneously combust and burn.
- LINEAL DESCENDANT
- Being in the direct line of descent from an ancestor
- LIS
- A fort.
- LIS PENDENS
- Notices of suits pending litigation, usually in matters concerning land.
- LIVERY OF SEISIN
- A legal conveyancing ceremony, formerly practiced in feudal England and in other countries following English common law, used to convey holdings in property. The term "livery" is related, if not synonymous with, the word "delivery" as used in modern contract law. The common law in those jurisdictions once provided that a valid conveyance of a feudal tenure in land required the physical transfer by the transferor to the transferee, in the presence of witnesses, of a piece of the ground itself, in the literal sense of a hand-to-hand passing of an amount of soil, a twig, key, or other symbol.
- LOAN FUNDS
- In the mid-nineteenth century hundreds of loan fund societies were making small loans to
as many as 20 percent of Irish households. These community-based institutions mushroomed in the 1830s after Parliament took legislative action to encourage them as part of an effort to stimulate privately funded poverty relief. An 1823 legislation allowed funds to charge interest stimulated the founding of a number of other loan funds, some of them charitably constituted, some profit-oriented.
The Act formalized the innovation of accepting deposits, limiting the interest paid to 6 per cent. This was extremely important since it allowed rapid growth and transformed the funds from charities into quasi-banks. The maximum legal loan size was set at £10, and borrowers were restricted to one loan at a time.
- LOCO PARENTIS
- In place of the parent or parents.
- LOUGH
- A lake
- LUGHNASA
- A Celtic festival held in mid-summer.
- LURGAN
- From the Irish: an Lorgain meaning "the long ridge".
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