A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America

This name is also given to an appending seal. LABOR. Continued operation; work. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership, and valued as equal to the capital of another. When business has been done for another, and suit is brought to recover a just reward, there is generally contained in the declaration a count for work and labor. Where penitentiaries exist, persons who have committed crimes are condemned to be imprisoned therein at labor. LABOR A JURY. To tamper with a jury; to persuade jurymen not to appear. It seems to come from the meaning of labor, to prosecute with energy, to urge: as, to labor a point Dy. 48; Hob. 294; Coke, Litt, 157 b; 14 20 Hen. VII. 30, 11. The first lawyer that came fromE ngland to practise in Boston was sent back for laboring a jury. Washburn, Jud. Hist. LACHES (F r. lacker). Negligence. 2. In general, when a party has been guilty of laches in enforcing his right by great delay and lapse of time, this circumstance will, at common law, prejudice and sometimes operate in bar of a remedy which it is discretionary and not compulsory in the court to afford. In courts of equity, also, delay will generally prejudice. 1C hitty, Pract. T86, and the cases there cited ;8 Comyns, Di r. 684; 6J ohns. Ch. N. Y. 360. 3. But laches may be excused from ignorance of the partys rights, 2M er. Ch. 362; 2B all B. Ch. I r. 104; from the obscurity of the transaction, 2S choales L. Ch. I r. 487; by the pendency of a suit, 1S choales L. Ch. I r. 413: and where the party labors under a legal disability: as, insanity, coverture, infancy, and the like. And no laches can be imputed to the public. 4M ass. 522; 3S erg. R. Penn. 291; 4H en. M. Va. 57; 1P enn. 476. See 1B elt, Supp. to Ves. Ch. 436; 2id. 170; Dane, A br. I ndex: 4B ouvier, I nst, n. 3911. LADYS FRIEND. The name of a functionary in theB ritish house of commons. When the
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