A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
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In old English lair. A duty, work or service of mowing grass, or cutting meadow land, required by a lord from his customary tenant. Consuetudo falcandi qua vacatur gavelmed. Somner
Lat. [L. Fr. de son tort demesne sans tiel cause.] Of his own wrong, without such cause. Formal words of traverse, used in replications in actions of trespass, and more compendious