Livery
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In English Law. The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite or by knight’s service. The name of a writ which lay for the heir of age to obtain po.ssession of the seisin of his lands at the king’s hands; abolished by stat.
12 Car. II. c. 24. Fitzh. N. B. 155; 2 Bla. Com. 68.
The distinguishing dre.ss worn by the servants of a gentleman or nobleman, or by the memhers of a particular guild. “Livery or clothing.”
Say. 274.
By stat.
1 Rich. II. c. 7, and 16 Rich. II. c.
4, none but the servants of a lord, and continually dwelling in his house, or those above the rank of yeomen, should wear the lord’s livery. The clothes supplied by a master for his servants’ use belong to the master;' 3 O. & P. 470.
See Stubbs, Const. Hist. 470.
Privilege of a particular company or guild. The members of such company are called liverymen. Whart Lex.