Certain
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Ascertained; precise; identified; definitive; clearly known; unambiguous; or, in law, capable of being identified or made known, without liability to mistake or ambiguity, from1 data already given. Cooper v. Bigly, 13 Mich. 479; Losecco v. Gregory, 108 La. 648, 32 South. 986; Smith v. Fyler, 2 Hili (N. Y.) 649; Civ. Code La. 1900, art3556.
— Certain services. In feudal and old English law. Such services as were stinted (limited or defined) in quantity, and could not be exceeded on any pretense; as to pay a stated annual rent, or to plow such a field tor three days. 2 Bl. Comm. 61.