In old English law. Light horsemen or bowmen; also certain tenants,bound by their tenure to maintain a little light horse for giving notice of any invasion, orsuch like peril, towards the seaside.

Lat. (This indeed is exceedingly hard, but so the law is written; such is the written or positive law.) Anobservation quoted by Black- stone as used by Ulpian in tlie civil law;

A hoke, hole, or lesser pit of salt. Cowell.

This was a duty given to the landlord that his tenants andbondmen might solemnize tlie day on which the English conquered the Danes, beingthe second Tuesday after Easter week. Cowell.

A kuight of the post; a decayed man ; a basket carrier. Cowell.

A name applied to a statute which comprises a medley ofincongruous subjects.

In old English law. A hill or mountain. In old English, a hoio. Grcne lioya,Grenehow. Domesday; Spelman.

In old English law. A sheep of the second year. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 79,

A hog or swine. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A house-servant. Any stranger who lodged threenights or more at a man’s house in a decennary was called “lioghenliyne,” and his hostbecame responsible for his acts as for those

A measure of a capacity containing the fourth part of a tun, or sixtythreegallons. Cowell. A large cask, of indefinite contents, but usually containing fromone hundred to one hundred and forty gallons.

v. 1. To possess in virtue of a lawful title; as In the expression, common ingrants, “to have and to hold,” or in that applied to notes, “the owner and holder.”Thompson v.

The holder of a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check is the person who has legally acquired the possession of the same, from a person capable of transferring it, by indorsement

Sax. In Saxon law. A military commander. Spelman.

In English law. A piece of land held under a lease or similar tenancy foragricultural, pastoral, or similar purposes.In Scotch law. The tenure or nature of the right given by the superior

A religious festival; a day set apart for commemorating some importantevent in history; a day of exemption from labor. Webster. A day upon which the usualoperations of business are suspended and the

An island In a river or the sea. Spelman.Plain grassy ground upon water sides or in the water. Blount. Low ground intersectedwith streams. Spelman.

In Spanish law. A holograph. An instrument (particularly a will) whollyin the handwriting of the person executing it; or which, to be valid, must be so writtenby his own hand.

A will or deed written entirely by the testator or grantor with his ownhand. Estate of Billings, 64 Cal. 427, 1 Pac. 701; Harrison v. Weatherby, ISO 111. 418,54 N. E. 237.

Sax. In old English law. A wood or grove. Spelman; Cowell; Co. Litt. 4b.