Livery
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
Engl. law.
1.
The by the borrower, without paying for delivery of possession of lands to it.
Jones’s Bailm. 118.
According those tenants who hold of the king to the Louisiana Code, art. 2864, it #n capite, or knight’s service.—2. a is an agreement by which a person Livery was also the name of a writ delivers a thing to another, to use it which lay for the heir of age, to ob- according to its natural destination, tain the possession of seisin of his or according to the agreement, unlands at the king’s hands.
F.N.
B. der an obligation on the part of the 155.—3. It signifies in the third borrower, to return it after he shall place the clothes given by a noble- have done using it. This loan is man or gentleman to his servant. essentially gratuitous. The Code