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lie lay [lā] lain [lān] ly·ing : to be sustainable or capable of being maintained : have grounds under the...

Le Roy n'est lie par aucun statut s'il ne fut expressenment nomme.-(The King is not bound by any statute unless...

Certiorari (to be more fully informed of), an original writ issuing out of the Crown side of the King's Bench...

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Mentition, [fr. Latin mentitio 'lying'] The act of lying, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1000.

leagh, Sax., place], a courtyard, backside, or piece of ground lying near and belonging to a dwelling-house [see Pilbrow v. Vestry

A small strip of land (usu. 2' feet wide and lying just outside a force. That the owner of the fenced

Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1363. Merely holding books found lying in the premises for perusing them cannot properly be regarded

a remote and undeveloped area originally the land or region lying behind the coast district The term is used esp with

piece of such land not in any man's occupation but lying common. 3. A devastated region. In the sequence in which

gist [Anglo-French, in the phrase laccion gist the action lies or is based (on), from gisir to lie (of process),...

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