or VIRGE. In English law*. The compass of the royai court, which bounds the jurisdiction of the lord steward of the household; it seems to have been twelve miles about Britt. 68. A quantity of iand from fifteen to thirty acres. 28 Edw. I. Al-8o a stick, or roti, whereby one is admitted tenant to a copyhold estate, old Nat Brev. 17
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
