Laity
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. They are divided Into three states: 1. Civil, Including all the nation, except the clergy, the army, and navy, and subdivided into the nobility and the commonalty.
2. Military. 3.
Maritime, consisting of the navy. Whart. Lex. In the United States the division of the people into clergy and laity is not authorized by law, and is