Latitudinarians.
A party in the English Church in the seventeenth century, who stood midway between the extreme Episcopal and the Puritan parties. It was the prototype of the modern Broad Church.
Latter Day Saints.
The proper name of the sect generally known as Mormons.
Lautero, Sociedad de.
A secret society formed in Spain at the beginning of the nineteenth century, to aid the movement of the Spanish-American colonies in the direction of independence.
Lawburrows, Writ of.
A writ, in Scottish law, by which any person who made oath that he went in fear of violence from his neighbour, could have him bound over to keep the peace. This legal form was used in 1678 against the gentry of the West, who had refused to enter into a bond binding themselves and all their dependents to abstain from active sympathy with the Covenanters.
Law of Flanders.
A law of Charles the Good, Earl of Flanders, decreeing that any one who married a serf became a serf.