Lay

adj. Relating to persons or things not clerical or ecclesiastical; .a person not in ecclesiastical orders. Also non-professional.

— Lay corporation. See Corporation.

— Lay days. In the law of shipping. Days allowed in charter-parties for loading and unloading the cargo. 3 Kent, Comm. 202, 203.

— Lay fee. A fee held by ordinary feudal tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II., which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101.
—-Lay impropriator. In English ecclesiastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72.

— Lay investiture. In ecolesiastical law. The ceremony of putting a bishop in possession of the temporalities of his diocese.

— Lay judge. A judge who is not learned in the law, i. e., not a lawyer; formerly employed in some or the states &a assessors or assistants to the presiding judges in the nisi prius courts or courts of first instance.

— Lay people. Jurymen.

— Layman. One of the people, and not one of the clergy ; one who is not of the legni profession; one who is not of a particular profession.

n. A share of the profits of a fishing or whaling voyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages. Coffin v. Jenkins, 5 Fed. Cas. 1190; Thomas v. Osborn, 19 How. 33, 15 L. Ed. 534.