Law terms starting with L

118 terms

  1. Load file A file that relates to a set of scanned images and indicates where individual pages belong together as documents.
  2. Local area network LAN. Usually refers to a network of computers in a single building or other discrete location.
  3. Local rules Each U.S. district court is authorized to "make and amend rules governing its practice not inconsistent with" the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
  4. locus (LOH-kuss) Specific place where something is located or occurs. It may refer to a specific place on the body (such as an acupuncture point) or the place…
  5. Locus sigilli (Abbr. L.S.) The place of the seal.
  6. Logfile The Microsoft Windows NT Logfile, officially designated as $Logfile, is a special system file used by Microsoft Windows NT to keep track of what it is…
  7. Logical Document Determination or LDD A process of document grouping or separation used in some e-Discovery litigation support processes.
  8. Logical File Space The actual amount of space occupied by a file on a hard drive. The amount of logical file space differs from the physical file space because when a file…
  9. Logical Volume An area on the hard drive that has been formatted for files storage. A hard drive may contain a single or multiple volumes.
  10. long-felt need This means a problem facing a particular technical area that has gone unsolved for a prolonged period.
  11. Loose-leaf services Loose-leaf replacement pages provided by a publisher in areas of the law where changes occur at a rapid rate.
  12. lossless compression Exact construction of image, bit-by-bit, with no loss of information.
  13. lossy compression Reduces storage size of image by reducing the resolution and color fidelity while maintaining minimum acceptable standard for general use.
  14. lost profits This is a measure of damages and is generally keyed to the profits that could have been the patentee's, but were lost to the infringer.
  15. Lower Court The court where a case starts, also known as the “trial court.”
  16. LTO (Linear Tape-Open) A type of backup tape which can hold as much as 400 GB of data, or 600 CDs depending on the data file format.
  17. Lump sum alimony see "alimony in gross."
  18. LZW (Lempel-Ziv & Welch) A common, lossless compression standard for computer graphics, used for most TIFF files. Typical compression ratios are 4/1.