Dford Law
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A sort of lynch law, ya person was first punished and then tried.
Wharton.
Iz. To aubsist; to exist; to be susable; to be proper or available. Thus phrase “an action will not Jie” means mab an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no ground upon which to found the action.