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Lay Days

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

The time allowed to the master of a vessel for loading and unloading the same. In the absence of any custom to the contrary, Sundays are to be computed in the calculation of lay days at the port of discharge; 10 M. & W. 331.

See 3 Esp. 121; 3 Kent 202; 2 Steph. Com. 141; Rubens v. Steamship Co., 65 Hun 625, 20 N. Y. Supp. 481.

See Demurrage. cal tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by stat. 12 Car. II., which abolished military tenures.

1 Bla. Com. 101.

LAY tlMPROPRIATOR

Lay rector, to whom the greater tithes are reserved, the lesser going to the vicar.

1 Bum, Eccl. Law 75, 76.