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Leading question

and address, etc., of witnesses. It is not easy to lay down any precise general rule as to what are leading

Lords Temporal, those lay peers who have seats in the House of Lords. See

Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 977 Manucaptio, a writ that lay for a man taken on suspicion of felony, etc., who

in the borough of Southwark, and a writ of error lay thence to the Court of King's Bench. Abolished by 12

Mesne, writ of, an ancient and abolished writ, which lay when the lord paramount distrained on the tenant paravail; the

Libertate probanda, an ancient writ which lay for such as being demanded for villeins offered to prove

consider money as land, unless the covenant or direction to lay it out inland be imperative. For the order of administration

Molliter manus imposuit. An officer may lay hands upon another to turn him out of church (for

Monstraverunt, a writ which lay for tenants in ancient demesne who held lands by free

very many parishes on the death of his parishioners. Like lay heriots, they were originally only voluntary bequests to the church,