Lot

1.

Any appeal or resort to chance for determining a result or for deciding' a question.

See Game, 3; Lottery.

A verdict arrived at by drawing lots will be set aside.* 2. Allotment; share; parcel. Used of land, does not imply anything- as to the size of the parcel.^ In a homestead law, held not synonymous with "tract " or " pai'cel,'* but to mean a city, town or village lot, according to the official survey.^ Under a devise of the "house and lot in which I now reside," the devisee will take the lot which the testator, prior to the date of his will, had separated from other lands. " Lot " generally describes a small parcel of land.^ In-lots lie within the boundary of a town or city; outlots lie outside such boundary.

See Dedication, 1; Field, 1; Map; Street. '