Glossary. 395 



Lac aciclum = BwtteY milk. 



Lac dulce = 'i^Q\w milk. 



Lceiilarid=A portion of the Folcland granted to an individual as a bene- 

 fice for life. 



Lancles Gemem£Ze= Germanic land community. 



ias^a (/e=Seignorial toll on market pi'oduce. 



Lath = Any piece of wood that can be split, 



Laiv/.iifj— The mutilation of dogs to prevent their overtaking game. 



Lenten earth—'Eixtra, demesne work before Easter. 



Liberi tenentes per ca?'^aj?i=Chartered freeholders liberated from all 

 kinds of predial service. 



Livery— Has three meanings: 1. A suit of clothes which a landowner 



gives to his followers. 2. A delivery of possession to those tenants 



• who held of the king in capite or knight's service. 3. The writ 



which lay for the heir, when of age, to obtain possession or seisin of 



his lands at the king's hands. 



Livery of seisin=A deliverj^ of possession of lands, etc., i.e. a ceremony 

 used in the conveyance of lands by common law. 



Lodlands =^The teamer's perquisite in land. 



Louda—A loaf of bread of a certain kind. 



M. 



Maslin=: A mixture of rye and wheat made into bread. 



iTiea/i:e= Implement with handle five feet long, for cutting peas. 



i^f^■c/^er= Thief. 



ilfoZme7i= Tenants paying partly in labour, partly in money. 



Morgengift = Th.e Anglo-Saxon woman's settlement in marriage. 



Mo I'tinain = An alienation of lands and tenements to any guild, corpora- 

 tion or fraternity, which had to be legalised by the king's license, 

 because they were said to come into " the dead hand " when dedi- 

 cated to God or pious purposes. 



Moulspear =lnstvument for destroying moles. 



Mutter i)or/= Germanic parent village. 



N. 



Nal= An awl. 



Novel disseisin^See "Assize of Novel Disseisin." 



Occupatio = Form of Eoman land tenure applied to waste lands. 

 Oustre le mains=A livery of land " out of the king's hand." 



P. 



Pack saddle— An equipment used for the carriage of wool on horseback. 

 Pagus = A district in Gerraania comprising a group of vici. 



