LANGUAGE

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expre ion of ideas by written characters. The letter, o, grammatical import, of a document or instrument, as distinguished from its spirit; as "the language of the statute." See Behling v. State, 110 Ga. 754, 36 S. E. 85; Stevens on v. State, 90 Ga. 456, 16 S. E. 95; Cavan v. Brooklyn (CityCt. Brook.) 5 N. Y. Supp. 759. LANGUID US. (Lat. Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff when a defendant, whom he h~s taken by virtue of proce , is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger h1s life or health. 3 Chit. Pr. 249, 358. LANIS DE CRESCENT I A WALLUE TRADUCENDIS ABSQUE CUSTUM'A, etc. An ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pa wool without paying custom, he havi.ng paid it before 1n Wales. Reg_ Orig. 279. LANO:IiIGER. A sort of base coin, formerly current in England. Cowell. LANZAS, In Spanish law. A commutation in money, paid by the nobles and high officers, in lieu of the quota of soldiers they might b.e required to furnish in war. Trevino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 660. [s. 702]