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Hirer

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

He who hires. See "Bailment." HLAFORD (Saxon). A lord. Hlafordsocna, a lord's protection. Hlafordswice, the crime of betraying one's lord. HLAFORDSWICE (Saxon, h Uford, lord, literally bread given, and wice).

In old English law

Betraying one's lord; treason.

Crabb, Hist, Eng. Law, 59, 301.

Pine for presence at an illegal assembly. Du Cange.