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Stale Demand

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A claim which has been for a long time undemanded; as, for example, where there has been a delay of twelve years unexplained.

3 Mason (U. S.) 161.

STALLAGE (Saxon, stal). The liberty or right of pitching or erecting stalls in fairs or markets, or the money paid for the same.

Blount; Wharton; 6 Q. B. 31.

STALLARIUS (Lat.) In Saxon law. The praefectus stabuli, now master of the horse (Saxon, stalstabulu-m).

Blount.

Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market. Fleta, lib.

4, c. 28, p. 13.