Lay
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. fr. and eng. Not clerical or ecclesiastical. Lay corporation: a corporation composed of laymen, or established for temporal purposes. Lay days: days allowed in charter-parties for loading and imloading. In English laxo. Lay fee: a fee held of a lay lord, or by lay tenure j the ordinary feudal tenure. Lay impropriator: a lay person holding a spiritual appropriation.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
edj. Relating to persons or things
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
n. A share of the profits of a fishing or whaling voyage, which is, by the usages of those employments, commonly allotted to each officer and seaman, as his compensation, and in lieu of fixed wages. This custom does not create any partnership in the profits of the voyage. The lay is regarded, in admiralty, as in the nature of wages for seamen in the common merchant service, and is governed, as respects forfeiture, by the same rules. Coffin H. Jenkins, 3 Story, 108.