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League of Corinth
League of Corinth, a modern name for the Hellenic alliance and common peace founded by Philip II of Macedon at Corinth in spring 337 BCE after Chaeronea, led by a hegemon and synedrion, waging war on Persia until Alexander's death in 323 BCE.
League of Nations mandate
League of Nations mandate: post-WWI legal status under Article 22 of the Covenant, placing former German and Ottoman territories under mandatory powers in A, B, and C classes, supervised by the Permanent Mandates Commission, later replaced by UN trusteeship.
League of Nations Treaty Series
The League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS) was the official publication of treaties registered with the League of Nations Secretariat, published in 205 volumes from 1920 to 1946.
League of Peace and Freedom
League of Peace and Freedom, also recorded as Ligue Internationale de la Paix et de la Liberté: a British pacifist organization founded in London in August 1915 for educational peace propaganda, publishing Towards Ultimate Harmony and penny pamphlets including Bertrand Russell's The Pacifist Philosophy of Life.
League of the Three Emperors
League of the Three Emperors (Dreikaiserbund): conservative alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, formed 1872–73, revived by the secret 1881 treaty, lapsed 1887, replaced by the Reinsurance Treaty.
Leahy v Attorney-General (NSW)
Leahy v Attorney-General (NSW), also cited as Attorney-General (NSW) v Donnelly, is a 1959 Privy Council decision upholding NSW testamentary gifts to religious orders under s 37D Conveyancing Act and limiting trustee selection to non-contemplative orders.
Learned Hand
Learned Hand (Billings Learned Hand, 1872-1961), American federal judge on the Southern District of New York and Second Circuit, never on the Supreme Court; known for Masses v. Patten, the Ulysses obscenity ruling, Dennis, and judicial restraint.
Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump
A 2026 United States Supreme Court decision holding that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize presidential tariffs, striking down tariffs imposed by executive order in 2025.
Lease administration
Lease administration is the ongoing management of a signed commercial lease, covering critical dates, rent billing, CAM reconciliation, and obligations, increasingly a compliance function under IFRS 16.
Leaseback
Leaseback, also sale and leaseback or sale-leaseback: a transaction where an owner sells property or equipment and immediately leases it back from the buyer, releasing capital while keeping use of the asset; governed by ASC 842 and IFRS 16 sale-accounting tests.
Leasehold estate
Leasehold estate: a nonfreehold property interest giving exclusive possession of land for a fixed term, also called a term of years; distinct from freehold, with assignment versus sublease rules and UK leasehold reform context.
Leasehold islands
A leasehold island is an island held under lease rather than owned outright, with lessees getting possession and use rights for terms of 30 to 99 years.
Leasehold valuation tribunal
Leasehold valuation tribunal (LVT): former England and Wales tribunal for leaseholder-landlord disputes over enfranchisement, lease extension, and service charges; replaced in England by the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) in 2013, continuing in Wales.
Leave of absence
Leave of absence: extended time away from work. In the US, governed by the FMLA (12 weeks unpaid job-protected leave), ADA accommodation leave, state workers' compensation, and state paid leave programs.
Lee Boyd Malvo
Lee Boyd Malvo, born in Jamaica in 1985, was the teenage partner of John Allen Muhammad in the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks that killed ten people.
Lee Choon-jae (이춘재)
Lee Choon-jae (이춘재), the Hwaseong serial murderer, killed women in Hwaseong, South Korea, 1986-1991; identified by DNA in 2019 while serving life for a 1994 murder; confessed to 14 murders; not prosecutable due to expired statute of limitations.
Lee H. Rosenthal
Lee H. Rosenthal, also known as Lee Hyman Rosenthal, is an American jurist who served as chief judge of the Southern District of Texas from 2016 to 2022.
Lee Jae-myung (이재명)
Lee Jae-myung (이재명, 李在明), South Korean politician and former human rights lawyer, born 1963 in Andong; Seongnam mayor, Gyeonggi governor, and 21st president of South Korea since June 2025.
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), Singapore's founding prime minister 1959-1990, PAP co-founder, later Senior Minister and Minister Mentor; led Singapore from Third World to First.
Lee Murray
Lee Murray, 'Lightning', Moroccan-British former MMA fighter who won once at UFC 46 (2004) and was convicted in Morocco for masterminding the 2006 £53m Securitas depot robbery in Tonbridge, Kent, Britain's biggest cash robbery, serving a 25-year sentence.
Lee P. Rudofsky
Lee Philip Rudofsky is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Left Bank of the Rhine
The Left Bank of the Rhine was German-speaking territory annexed by France in 1801. It was organized into four departments and governed as part of metropolitan France until 1814.
Lefty Ruggiero
Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero (1926–1994), Bonanno family soldier, sponsored FBI undercover agent Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco); arrested 1981, convicted, served 10 years, died of cancer; portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1997 film.
Legal affairs of Elon Musk
Legal affairs of Elon Musk: SEC cases (2018 funding-secured tweets, 2025 late Twitter 13D filing settled at $1.5 million), Twitter merger litigation, the lost OpenAI suit, his companies' suits against critics and agencies, and DOGE challenges.
Legal affairs of the second Trump presidency
Legal affairs of the second Trump presidency: executive orders on independent agencies, Supreme Court removal and emergency-docket rulings, DOJ voter-roll litigation, press-access disputes, and expert surveys finding the lowest rule-of-law ratings since 2015.
Legal affairs of the Tate brothers
Legal affairs of Andrew and Tristan Tate: Romanian criminal cases (2022 arrest, 2023 and 2026 indictments), 59 UK charges, Miami US extradition arrest and detention rulings, civil suits, and asset-forfeiture proceedings.
Legal aid
Legal aid: state-funded legal advice, assistance, and representation for people who cannot afford it, covering criminal and civil matters; anchored in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) and the 1964 Criminal Justice Act in the US.
Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series
Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series center on Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling v. RDR Books (2008), which blocked the print Harry Potter Lexicon as infringement, rejecting fair use, and later AI-memorization controversies.
Legal disputes over the validity of the Japan–Korea annexation treaties
The legal disputes over the validity of the Japan–Korea annexation treaties concern whether the 1904–1910 treaties by which Japan annexed Korea were valid or null from coercion and missing imperial assent.
Legal effects of adoption in Canada
A Canadian adoption order makes the child, in law, the child of the adoptive parents, ending the legal parent-child relationship with the birth parents, including inheritance rights.