lat A person’s peers or equals; as the Jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties litigant; and, ns the lord’s vas-sals Judged each other in the lord’s courts, so the sovereign’s vassals, or the lords them* selves, judged each otber in the sovereign’s courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
