In old English law. A ditch or trench for conveying water from marshy grounds. Spelman
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DE, LANDHLAFORD, or LANDRICA. In Saxon law. A proprietor of land; lord of the soil. Anc. Inst Eng
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In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or held. Spelman; Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10
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In feudal law. Vassals who were obliged to work for their lord one day in the week, from Michaelmas to autumn, either with fork, spade, or flail, at the lord’s option. Spelman
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An open field without wood; a lawnd or lawn. Coweli; Blount
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Lat. In the civil law. wool. See Dig. 32, 60, 70, 88
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A county of England, erected into a county palatine in the reign of Edward III., but now vested in the crowu
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The 1st of August. It is one of the Scotch quarter days, and is what is called a “conventlonal term.”
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Lands over whlch there is a right of pasturage by persons other than the owner from about Lammas, or reap-lng tlme, until sowing time, wharton
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In Engllsh law. A degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in prejudice of the unlverslties. 3 Steph. Comm. 65; 1 Bl. Comm. 381
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A cant term on the stock exchange for a person unable to -meet his engagements
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A work upon the office of a justice of the peace, which, having gone throngh two editions, one in 1579, the other in 1581, was reprinted in English in 1599
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Fr. In Freuch marlue law. A pilot, ord. Mar. liv. 4, tlt. 3
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A sheep, ram, or ewe under the age of one year. 4 Car. & P. 216
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In English law. Those persons who do not inuke a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, in-cluding all the nation, except the clergy, the army, and navy, and subdivided into the no-bility and the commonalty; (2) military; (3) maritime, consisting of the navy, wharton
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A large body of water, contained in a depression of the earth’s surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area, webster. See Jones v. Lee, 77 Mich. 35, 43 N. W. 855; Ne-pee-nauk Club v. wilson, 96 wis. 290, 71 N. W. 061
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or LAIRESITE. A fine for adultery or fornication, aneiently iMiid to the lords of some innuora. 4 Inst. 206
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Lat. A layman, one who is not in holy orders, or not engaged in the ministry of religion
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A breach of law. Cowell. A mulct for an offense, viz., twelve “ores.”
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L. Lat in old English law. A measure of ale. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 11. Said to consist of six sextarles. Cowell
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In old Engllsh law. Law; also nsed to express the territory or dlstrict in which a particular law was in force, as Dena lagu, Mercna lagu, etc
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