Mortuary
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Inecclesiastical law
A burial-place. A kind of ecelesiastical heriot, being a customary gift of the second best living animal belonging to the deceased, elaimed by and due to the minister in many parishes, on the death of his parishioners, whether buried in the church-yard or nof, 2 Bl. Comm. 425. Tt has been sometimes used in a civil as well as in an ecclesiastical sense, and applied to a payment to the lord of the fea.
Paroch. Antiq. 470.