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Sorn

HON, or SORN. An arbitrary exaction, formerly existing in Scotland and Ireland, whenever a chieftain had a mind to revel, he came down among the tenants wlth his followers, by way of contempt called “Gillitcitfltts:’ and llved on free quarters, wharton; Bell

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)