Corody
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An allowance of meat, drink, money, clothing, lodging, and such like necessaries for sustenance.
1 Bl. Comm. 282; 1 Chit. Prac. 225.
An allowance from an abbey or house of religion, to one of the king's servants who dwells therein, of meat and other sustenance.
Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 230.
An assize law for a corody.
Cowell.
Corodies are now obsolete.
Coke, 2d Inst. 630; 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 40.