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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from Fr. ouvre, ouvrage, labor, work.] In old English law. A day's work of a ploughman; a kind of customary service rendered by the king's tenants within the demesne lands of the crown.

Domesday. Spelman. Cowell.