Virga
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
L In old English law. A rod or white staff, such as sheriffs,, bailiffs, etc., carried as a badge of ofittce; a yard. Virga alnaria: a ferrea: the iron yard, — the standard yard, a yard according to that standard. Tirga terrae, or virgata terrse: a yard-land; a measure of land of variable quantity, containing twenty to forty acres.