Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Debts of the laity.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity or of lay persens. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently se called. Crabb, Eng. Law, 107.