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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A mortuary, thus termed because, when a mortuary became due on the death of a man, the best or second-best beast was, according to custem, offered or presented to the priast, and carried with the corpse. In Wales a corse-present was die upon the death of a clergyman to