r hours of (_see Hours of Labor_).
Labor laws (see _Hours of Labor, Factories)_,
early English statutes relating to, chapter IV;
closely connected with laws against trusts;
twenty years of legislation.
Labor Unions _(see Trades Unions)_;
exemption from anti-trust laws;
agreement not to join not to be required;
lawful in Europe;
funds of to be protected from attack;
desire to be exempt from militia service;
hostile to militia;
may not establish a privileged caste;
generally exclude negroes.
Laborers, first statute of 1349;
possibly never law;
confirmed in 1364 and not repealed until 1869;
re-enacted in 1360;
never law in America;
great statute of, 1562;
statute of 1388;
requiring testimonials;
statute of 1402, forbids laborers to be hired by the week;
statute of, re-enacted in 1405;
statute of Elizabeth, 1562;
statute of, extended to London city;
confirmed under James I;
fixed prices of victuals;
laborers not to be imported into State of Oklahoma.
Laissez faire school (_see Individualism_)
Land system of tenure before the conquest;
allodial in United States;
subject to eminent domain.
Lassalle, doctrine of, anticipated;
ideas of, in modern socialism.
Lateran council, abolishes trial by ordeal.
Laundries, regulation of, etc.
Law, English idea of, chapter concerning, chapter I;
definition of;
American notion of;
Anglo-Saxon idea of;
originally in England unwritten;
law enforced each man for himself;
supposed to be known by all;
growth of among children;
sanction of;
notion of as an order of a sovereign to a subject;
Roman notion of not understood;
unwritten in early England;
Austinian notion of quite modern in England;
sanction of, not necessarily punishment;
early English all customary;
always made by the people under Teutonic ideas;
English not codified;
right to, recognized in Magna Charta;
of the land, as expressed in Magna Charta;
extended to all people;
right to as against military law;
form of American statutes.
Law merchant, history of;
governs all persons coming to the staple.
Law reports continuous among the English people since 1305.
Laws _(see Statutes_), not made by early Parliaments, but only
declared;
"We are unwilling to change the laws of England."
Lawyers may not sit in Parliament.
Legislation _(see also Statutes_);
American in general, chapter concerning, chapter VI;