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Definition :

Lada [fr. lathian, Sax.], a lath, or inferior Court of justice; also a course of water, or a broadway.

Means purgation, exculpation. There were three kinds: (1) That wherein the accused cleared himself by his own oath, supported by the oaths of his consacramentals (compurgators), according to the number of which the lada was said to be either simple or three-fold; (2) Ordeal; (3) Corsned. See CORSNED BREAD.

Means also, a service which consisted in supplying the lord with beasts of burden; or, as defined by Roquefort: Service qu'un vassal devoit a son seigneur, et qui consistoit a faire quelques voyages par ses betes de somme, Anc. Inst. Eng.