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lay laid lay·ing 1 : to impose as a duty, burden, or punishment [ a tax] 2 a : to put forward : assert [ a claim] b : to submit for examination and determination [laid...

Lay

Lay [fr. Gk.], not clerical or not professional; regarding or belonging to the people, as distinct from the clergy or a particular profession.

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Lay

of Lie to recline

Lay off

Lay off, s. 2(kkk) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 defines a lay off. Lay-off may be due to shortage of coal or shortage of power or shortage of raw materials or accumulation of stocks or break-down...

Lay impropriators

Lay impropriators, lay persons to whose use ecclesiastical benefices have been annexed. At the dissolution of the monasteries by stat. 27 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 31 Hen. 8, c. 13, the appropriations of the several...

Lay Rector

Lay Rector. A person holding by title under lay impropriation (see that title). As to the lay rector's liability to repair, see Morley v. Leacroft, 1896, P. 92, and Stuart v. Haughley Parish Church Council, 104...

Lay fee

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

Lay investiture

Lay investiture, means the ceremony of placing a bishop in possession of lands, money revenues, and other diocesan temporalities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 896.

Lay system

Lay system, means a system in which a fishing vessel's catch is sold at auction, and then the proceeds are provided first to the provider of supplies and then to the master and crew. Black's Law...

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