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Lath, Lathe

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The name of an ancient civil division in England, intermediate between the county or shire and the hundred. Said to be the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was termed a "rape." 1 Bl. Comm. 116; Cowell; Spelman.
—-Lathreve. An officer under the Saxon government, who bad authority over a lathe. Cowell ; 1 Bl. Comm. ll6.