LEG 



LEI 



LEEA, in botany, so called from James tor, which cannot be collected in, it wiM 

 Lee, a genus of the Pentandria Monogynia carry interest only from the end of the 

 class and order. Natural order of Trilii- year after the death of the testator. A 

 lat?e. Sapotze, Jussieu. Essential charac- legacy to an infant ought not to be paid 

 ter: corolla one-petalled; nectary on the to his father; a legacy to a married wo- 

 tube of the corolla, upright, five-cleft ; man can only be paid to her husband ; 

 berry five-seeded. There are three spe- and executors are not bound to pay a le- 

 cies, natives of the East Indies, Africa, gacy without security to refund, 

 and New South Wales. When all the debts and particular le- 



LEEC1I. See UIRUJIO. gacies are discharged, the residue or sur- 



LEEK. See ALLIUM. plus must be paid to the residuary lega- 



LEERS1A, in botany, so named from tee, if any be so appointed in the will ; 

 John Daniel Leers, a genus of the Trian- hut if there be none appointed or in- 

 dria Digynia class and order. Natural tended, it will go to the executor or nqxt 

 order of Gramma or Grasses. Essential of kin. When this residue does not go 



to the executor, it is to be distributed 

 among the intestate's next of kin, accord- 

 ing to the statute of distributions, except 

 it is otherwise disposable by particular 

 customs, as those of London, York, &c. 

 See EXECUTOR. 



LEGNOT1S, in botany, a genus of the 

 Polyandria Monogynia 'class and order. 



character: calyx none ; glume two-valved, 

 closed. There are three species. 



LEGACY, ib a bequest of a sum of mo- 

 ney, or any personal effects of a testator, 

 and these are to be paid by his represen- 

 tative, after all the debts of the deceased 

 are discharged, as far as the assets, or pro- 

 perty liable to payment of debts and le- 

 gacies, will extend. All the goods and 

 chattels of the deceased are by law vested 

 in the representative, who is bound to 

 see whether there be left a sufficient 

 fund to pay the debts of the testator, 

 which, if it should prove inadequate, the 

 pecuniary legacies must proportionably 

 abate ; a specific legacy, however, is not 

 to abate, unless there be insufficient with- 



Essential character: calyx five-cleft ; pe- 

 tals five, jagged, inserted into the recep- 

 tacle; capsule three-celled There are 

 two species, viz. L. elliptica and L. cassi- 

 pourea. 



LEGUMEN, in botany, that species of 

 seed-vessel termed a pod, in which the 

 seeds are fastened along one suture only. 

 In this the seed-vessel in question differs 



out it to pay debts; that is, the general from the other kind of pod, termed by 

 legacies must all be exhausted first. If botanists siliqua, in which the enclosed 



seeds are fastened alternately to both the 

 sutures or joinings of the valves. The 

 seed-vessel of all the pea-bloom or but- 

 terfly-shaped flowers, the Diadelphia of 

 Lirtnseus, is of the leguminous kind ; such 

 is the seed-vessel of the pea, vetch, lu- 

 pine, &c* See PAPILIONACEOUS. 



the legatee die before the testator, it 

 will in general be a lapsed legacy, and 

 fall into the general fund, as it will also 

 where it is $iven upon a contingency, as 

 to A B, if he shall attain twenty-one. 

 Where, however, from the general im- 

 port of the will, it can be collected that 

 the testator intended it a vested legacy, 



LEIBNITZ (GODFREY WILLIAM,) an 



it will go to the representative of the de- eminent mathematician and philosopher, 

 ceased legatee. Thus, if a legacy is made was born at Leipsic, in Saxonv, in 1646. 



rest in him ; but it is otherwise, if it is ge- Individuationis. The year followin- he 



nerally to him at or when he attains such was admitted Master of Arts. He read 



age. If the legacy is to bear interest, it with great attention the Greek philoso- 



is vested, though the words payable are phers, and endeavoured to reconcile Pla- 



omitted So, i ht is to A for life, and af- to with Aristotle, as he afterwards did 



ter the death of A to B, the legacy to B Aristotle with Des Cartes. But the study 



is vested in B upon the death of the tes- of the law was his principal view; in 



tator, and will not lapse by the death of which faculty he was admitted Bachelor 



B in the hfet.me of A. ; lfifi * T 4 year following he would 



degree 



in the funds, which yield an' immediate too youn^.v^ough^reaUty, because he 



If many enemies, by re- 

 iples of Aristotle and the 



T f, ill t . w>s. f. *n- > wo.1 tulllSUJIItf JJC YVUUlll 



Incase of a vested legacy due imme- have taken the degree of Doctor, but 



lately, and charged on land, or money was refused it on pretence that he was 



in the funds, winch yield an immediate too youne-- though 



profit, interest shall be payable from the had raised 'himself 



death of the testator ; but if it be charged jecting the princip 



on tac personal estate onlv of t.h t^cta. OK fL 



personal estate only of the testa- schoolmen. 



