Livery

English Law: Livery in the Past

The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite or knight’s service. 2. Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to get the possession of seisin of his lands at the king’s hands. F. N. B. 155. 3. It signifies, in the third place, the clothes given by a nobleman or gentleman to his servant. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”]

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1. Partialy, this information about livery is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including livery.

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