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Laye

Laye [fr. ley, Old Fr.], law.

Lay off, s. 2(kkk) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 defines a lay off. Lay-off may be due to shortage of...

Lay impropriators, lay persons to whose use ecclesiastical benefices have been annexed. At the dissolution of the monasteries by stat....

Lay Rector. A person holding by title under lay impropriation (see that title). As to the lay rector's liability to...

lay laid lay·ing 1 : to impose as a duty, burden, or punishment [ a tax] 2 a : to...

Lay fee, lands held in fee of a lay lord, as distinguished from those lands which belong to the Church.

Lay investiture, means the ceremony of placing a bishop in possession of lands, money revenues, and other diocesan temporalities, Black's...

Laying a foundation, means introducing evidence of certain facts needed to render later evidence relevant, material, or competent. For example,...

Lay people, jurymen. Obsolete.

Lay investitute of Bishops, putting a bishop into possession of the temporalities belonging to his bishopric.