Capon - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A sort of fricassee with white sauce variously made of capon fish etc...
Capon
A castrated cock esp when fattened a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table...
Caponet
A young capon...
Caponize
To castrate as a fowl...
Cockaleekie
A favorite soup in Scotland made from a capon highly seasoned and boiled with leeks and prunes called also cocky leeky...
Poultry
Domestic fowls reared for the table or for their eggs or feathers such as cocks and hens capons turkeys ducks and geese...
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...
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