Lay

In English Law. That which relates to persons or things not ecclesiastical. In the United States, the people are not by law divided, as in England, into ecclesiastical and lay. The law makes no distinction between them. In Pleading. To state or to allege. The place from whence a jury are to be suinmoned is called the "venue," and the allegation in the declaration of the place where the jury is to be summoned is, in technical language, said to "lay the venue." 3 Steph. Comm. 574; 3 Bouv. Inst, note 2826. To state at the conclusion of a declaration the amount of damages which the plaintiff claims is to "lay damages."

In English Law. That which relates to persons or things not ecclesiastical. In the United States, the people are not by law divided, as in England, into ecclesiastical and lay. The law makes no distinction between them. The word is also used in the sense of opposed to professional. Also applied to a share of the profits of a fishing or whaling voyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages. Coffin V. Jenkins, 3 Story 108, Fed. Cas. No. 2,948. In Pleading. To state or to allege. The place from whence a Jury are to be summoned is called the venue, and the allegation in the declaration of the place where the jury is to be summoned is, in technical language, said to lay the venue. 3 Steph. Com. 574; 3 Bouvler, Inst. n. 2830. To lay damages. To state at the conclusion of the declaration the amount of damages which the plaintiff claims. And. Steph. PI. § 220.

adj. Relating to persons or things not clerical or ecclesiastical; .a person not in ecclesiastical orders. Also non-professional.

— Lay corporation. See Corporation.

— Lay days. In the law of shipping. Days allowed in charter-parties for loading and unloading the cargo. 3 Kent, Comm. 202, 203.

— Lay fee. A fee held by ordinary feudal tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II., which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101.
—-Lay impropriator. In English ecclesiastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72.

— Lay investiture. In ecolesiastical law. The ceremony of putting a bishop in possession of the temporalities of his diocese.

— Lay judge. A judge who is not learned in the law, i. e., not a lawyer; formerly employed in some or the states &a assessors or assistants to the presiding judges in the nisi prius courts or courts of first instance.

— Lay people. Jurymen.

— Layman. One of the people, and not one of the clergy ; one who is not of the legni profession; one who is not of a particular profession.

n. A share of the profits of a fishing or whaling voyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages. Coffin v. Jenkins, 5 Fed. Cas. 1190; Thomas v. Osborn, 19 How. 33, 15 L. Ed. 534.

To allege or state in pleading. Lay damages: to state at the conclusion of a declaration the sum claimed in the action. Lay the venue: to state the county as that in which the plaintiff proposes the trial shall be had. v. Venue.

2 To state or allege in pleading.

1, adj. (1) Pertaining to the laity; not of the legal profession. Layman. A person not admitted to practice law; one not learned in the law.' (3) Not ecclesiastical; organized for secular purposes: as, a lay corporation, q. v. 3, V. To state, name, allege, charge: as, to lay an offense, damages, venue.* Compare Lie, 1 (3). Lay days. Days allowed for loading and unloading the cargo of a vessel.5 See Working-days. Lay out. In highway laws, embraces, ordinarily, all the acts necessary to the complete establishment of a highway." May include every order of municipal authorities by which private property is taken for public use.' To locate and establish a new highway.' May mean to take and maintain a road." " Lay out and complete a street: " to determine the time at which it shall be graded, finished, and fitted for travel; to make a de facto street.'" " Lay out " and " lay off " a road: to lay down the whole ground covered, specifying the width."

1. Not clerical, not ration: V. Corporation. religious services. Lays 'priator: v. Impropriation.

V. A term in pleading, meaning to allege or state. Thus to lay an offence, or a wrong, is to allege the act for which the indictment or declaration seeks redress. To lay damages is to aver the amount of damages plaintiff has sustained. To lay the venue is to state the county in which the transaction in suit occurred, and where, therefore, the cause must be tried. It is sometimes used erroneously for lie, q.v., as, to say that " the action would not lay."