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LAWN TENNIS 



Public Defenders 



Pure Food Laws 



Quorum 



Rack 



Real Estate 



Reform Schools 



Replevin 



Retainer 



Riparian Rights 



Search, Right of 



Slander 



Statute 



Subpoena 



Sumptuary Laws 



Supreme Court 



Title 



Torrens System 



Tort 



Torture 



Treadmill 



Treasure-trove 



Trespass 



Trustee 



Usury 



Wager 



Warrant 



Wheel 



Will 



Witness 



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The following jurists and lawyers are given 

 separate treatment in these volumes : 

 Alverstone, Lord Hughes, Charles Evans 



Blackstone, Sir William Ingersoll, Robert Green 

 Brandeis, Louis Jay, John 



Chase, Salmon P. Jeffreys, Lord 



Choate, Joseph Hodges Kent, James 



Lamar, Lucius Quintus 



Cincinnatus 



Lindsey, Benjamin Barr 

 Marshall, John 

 Reading, Baron 



Choate, Rufus 

 Davis, David 

 Duff, Lyman P. 

 Falconbridge, Sir Wm. 



G. 



Field, David Dudley 

 Field, Stephen Johnson 



Story, Joseph 

 Taney, Roger Brooke 



Fuller, Melville Weston Waite, Morrison Remick 

 Gray, George Wharton, Francis 



Harlan, John Marshall White, Edward 

 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Douglass 



Jr. 



Wilson, James 



LAW, ANDREW BONAR (1858- ), a British 

 statesman, born in New Brunswick, Canada. 

 When he was twelve years of age his parents 

 removed to Glasgow, Scotland, and he com- 

 pleted his education in the Glasgow High 

 School. At the age of sixteen he was given a 

 position in the iron works of which his uncle 

 was the head. He learned the business thor- 

 oughly and became a successful iron manu- 

 facturer. He was chosen chairman of the 

 Glasgow Iron Trade Association and showed 

 marked ability in the discharge of his duties. 

 In 1900 he was elected to the House of Com- 

 mons for Glasgow as a Unionist. In 1902 he 

 became Parliamentary Secretary of the Board 

 of Trade and held the position until 1906. In 

 1911 he succeeded Arthur J. Balfour as leader 

 of the Opposition, and in the reorganized Cab- 

 inet of Mr. Asquith in 1915, he was given the 

 portfolio of Secretary of State for the Colonies. 

 Before David Lloyd George succeeded Asquith 

 as Premier in 1917 Law was asked to assume 

 that post, but he declined, and became an asso- 

 ciate of Lloyd George as Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer and one of the five members of the 

 powerful War Council. 



LAW, JOHN (1671-1729), a financier and 

 speculator who became famous as the origina- 



tor of a scheme to develop the resources of 

 the province of Louisiana and the region bor- 

 dering on the Mississippi, which was believed 

 to be rich in precious metals (see MISSISSIPPI 

 SCHEME). He was born at Edinburgh, the son 

 of a goldsmith and banker. Law displayed a 

 remarkable aptitude for mathematics and kin- 

 dred sciences when he was very young. He 

 spent a great deal of time in Amsterdam, 

 studying the credit operations of the bank, and 

 about the year 1700 returned to Edinburgh. 

 At this time he proposed to the Scottish Par- 

 liament that a paper currency be adopted, but 

 his proposition was rejected. 



Having made a fortune by gambling, he 

 opened a bank in Paris. The Duke of Orleans 

 became his patron and in 1718 he adopted 

 Law's plan for a national bank. In 1717 he 

 had originated his famous Mississippi Scheme; 

 three years later, on the failure of the project 

 and the collapse of the bank, he fled from 

 France. Settling finally in Venice, he managed 

 to make a poor living by gambling. He di.ed 

 in May, 1729. 



LAWN TENNIS, a modern adaptation of 

 an old game called tennis (which see), played 

 on a hard court of grass, gravel, cinders, clay 

 or asphalt, with balls and rackets. The balls, 

 2% inches in diameter, are of rubber, covered 



PLAYING FIELD 



with white felt; the rackets, which are 8x15 

 inches, have frames of ash or hickory, with 

 cedar handles, the frames being netted with 

 tightly-strung, varnished gut. The court is 

 78x27 feet, marked out by white tapes or lime 

 boundaries, with an alley 4% feet beyond on 

 either side, used only when four people play. 

 A net, three feet high, divides the court into 

 halves. Each side is divided again 21 feet 

 from the net, and the space between this line 

 and the net is bisected into rectangles, called 

 receiving courts, 



The object of the player who starts the 

 game is to knock the ball with the racket into 

 the opponent's court so he cannot return it. 



