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Ouster Le Main

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Fr. Literally, out of the hand.

1.

A delivery of lands out of the king's hands by judgment given in favor of the petitioner in a mom trans de droit.

2.

A delivery of the ward's lands out of the hands of the guardian, on the former arriving at the proper age, which was twenty-one in males, and sixteen in females.

Abolished by 12 Car. II. c. 24.

Mozley & Whitley.