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or PELFRE. Booty; also the personal effects of a felon convict Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The custom or duty paid for skins of leather Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A peal, pile, or fort. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Issues arising from or out of a thing. Jacob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Vassals or tenants of the same lord, who were obliged to serve and attend him in hls courts, being equal in function. […]

L. Fr. In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A woman who belongs to the noblllty, which may be either in her own right or by right of marriage Source: Black’s […]

In feudal law. The vassals of a lord who sat in his court as judges of their co-vassals, and were called “peers,” […]

Foot-soldiers Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The rank or dignlty of a peer or nobleman. Also the body of nobles taken collectively Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Lat in the civil and old Engllsh law. A putting or placing of the foot. A term used to denote the possession […]

Lat. A foothold; an actual possession. To constitute adverse possession there must he pedis possessio, or a substantial inclosure. 2 Bouv. Inst. […]

Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. Swink […]

Lat. In old crim-lnal law. The cutting off a foot; a punishment anclently Inflicted Instead of death. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38 […]

In old English and Scotch law. Dusty-foot. A term applied to itinerant merchants, chapmen, or peddlers who attended fairs Source: Black’s Law […]

In criminal law. The un-natural carnal copulation of male with male, particularly of a man with a boy; a form of sodomy, […]

Lat. In Roman law. At the foot; in a lower position; on the grouud. See Judex Pedankus Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. In re wilson, […]

In old English law. A toll or tax paid by travelers for the privilege of passing, on foot or mounted, through a […]

L. Lat. Pedage, (q. v Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Monetary; relating to money; consisting of money Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In Roman law. Cattle; a beast Under a bequest of pecudes were included oxen and other beasts of burden. Dig. 32, […]

LaL, In Roman law. Such private property as might be held by a slave, • wife, or son who was unuer the […]

Lat. originally and radl-cally, property in cattle, or cattle themselves. So called because the wealth of the ancients consisted in cattle. Co. […]

In ecclesiastical law. A parish or church in Englnnd whlch has jurls-dlctlon of ecclesiastical matters within itself, and lndependent of the ordinary, […]