Livery Stable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: livery stableLivery stable
A stable where horses are kept for hire and where stabling is provided See Livery n 3 e f amp g...
Livery
Livery [fr. livrer, Fr.,], the act of giving possession, now superseded by the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.106), s. 2. 'Livery of seisin simply means the delivery of the feudal possession'; Williams on Seisin, p. 99. Also, release from wardship; also the writ by which possession was obtained; also, simply delivery, as a horse is said to stand at livery where the livery stable keeper delivers him to the owner for use as required. In London, the collective body of liverymen. Also the privilege of a particular company or society. See SEISIN....
Liveried
Wearing a livery See Livery 3...
Seisin, Livery of
Seisin, Livery of, formal delivery of possession, called by the Feudists investiture of a fee or feudal estate. Applicable to corporeal hereditaments while incorporeal hereditaments such as a remainder or easement were conveyed by writing under seal. After the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 2, all corporeal hereditaments might be conveyed by deed, and now by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 25, conveyance by livery of seisin has been abolished. See FEOFFMENT....
livery of seisin
livery of seisin : an ancient ceremony for conveyance of land by the symbolic transfer of a relevant item (as a key, twig, or turf) or by symbolic entry of the grantee called also investiture see also feoffment ...
Attorney of the Wards and Liveries
Attorney of the Wards and Liveries was the third officer of the Duchy Court, 1 Bac. Abr., tit. 'Attorney....
Livery-man
Livery-man, a member of some company in the City of London; also called a freeman....
Livery-office
Livery-office, an office appointed for the delivery of lands....
Lying in Grant, or in Livery
Lying in Grant, or in Livery. See GRANT....
Wards and liveries, Court of
Wards and liveries, Court of, a Court erected by Henry III., and abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24...
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