Livery

1.

In English law. Delivery of possession of their lands to the king's tenants in capite or tenants by knight's service.
2. A writ which may be sued out by a ward in chivalry, on reaching his majority, to obtain delivery of the possession of his lands out of the hands of the guardian. 2 Bl. Comm. 68.
3. A particular dress or garb appropriate or peculiar to certain persons, as the members of a guild, or, more particularly, the servants of a nobleman or gentleman.
4. The privilege of a particular guild or company of persons, the members thereof being called "livery-men."
5. A contract of hiring of work-beasts, particularly horses, to the use of the hirer. It is seldom used alone in this sense, but appears in the compound, "livery-stable."

— Livery in chivalry. In feudal law. The delivery of the lands of a ward in chivalry out of the guardian's bands, upon the heir's attaining the requisite age,
—twenty-one for males, sixteen for females. 2 Bl. Comm. 68.

— Liveryman. A member of some company in the city of London ; also called a "freeman."

— Livery of seisin. The appropriate ceremony, at common law, for transferring the corporal possession of lands or tenements by a grantor to his grantee. It was livery in deed where the parties went together upon the land, and there a twig, clod, key, or other symbol was delivered in the name of the whole. Livery in law was where the same ceremony was performed, not upon the land itself, but in sight of it. 2 Bl. Comm. 315, 316; Micheau v. Crawford, 8 N. J. Law, 108; Northern Pac. R. Co. v. Cannon (C. C.) 46 Fed. 232.
—Livery-office, An office appointed for the delivery of lands.

— Livery stable keeper. One whose business it la to keep horses for hire or to let, or to keep, feed, or board horses for others. Kittanning Borough v. Montgomery, 5 Pa. Super. Ct. 198.