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Lay system

Lay system, means a system in which a fishing vessel's catch is sold at auction, and then the proceeds are...

Lay days

Lay days, running or consecutive days; a term used as to the time of loading and unloading ships, etc. see...

Lay

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

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Client (Lay)

Client (Lay), refers to the person on whose behalf the barrister is retained or in relation to an employed barrister,...

lay worker

lay worker A person who works in a religious organization but is not a member of the formal clergy. Source:...

lay witness

lay witness see witness

Lay corporations

Lay corporations, bodies politic; they are either: (1) Civil, created for temporal purposes; or (2) Eleemosynary, for charitable purposes.

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III...

Quo minus

Quo minus, a writ which lay for him who had a grant of house-bote and hay-bote in another's woods against...

Parson

Parson [fr. persona, Lat., because the parson omnium personam in ecclesi' sustinet; or from parochianus, the parish-priest.--Johnson; anciently written persone.--Todd],...

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