Libera

A delivery of so much com or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn and received some portion of it as a reward or gratuity. Cowell. LIBERAL (Lat. liberalis, of or belonging to a freeman — from liber, free). Free In giving; generous; not mean or narrowminded; not literal or strict. Where a jury was instructed that In the award of compensation “it should be liberal,” an exception to the remark 'was overruled; no request had been made for a different instruction, and the expression objected to was preceded by a caution to the jury against crediting any extravagant statement of the injuries And as if to qualify this caution, it was added that it should be liberal; Congress & E. Spring Co. v. Edgar, 89 U. S. 659, 25 L. Ed. 487. By Uberal interpretation is meant not that the words should be forced out of their natwith respect to the objects and purposes of the instrument;. Lawrence v. Mc Calmont, 2 How. (U. S.) 426, 11 L. Ed. 32(5. An offer of a liberal reward for Information leading to the apprehension of a fugitive and a specified sum for his apprehension entitles the party giving information leading to the arrest to the liberal reward, but not to the sum named where the arrest was not in fact made by him or by his agent; Shuey v. U. S., 92 U. S. 73, 23 L. Ed. 697. LIBERATE (Lat). In English Practice. A writ which issues on lands, tenements, and chattels, being returned under an extent on a statute staple, commanding the sheriff to deliver them to the plaintiff, by the extent and appraisement mentioned in the writ of extent and in the sheriff’s return thereto. See Com. Dig. Statute Staple (D 6).

Lat. (Feminine of liber. adj.) Free; at liberty; exempt; not subject to toll or charge.
—Libera batella. In old records. A free boat; the right of having a boat to fish in a certain water; a species of free fishery.
—Libera chasea habenda. A judicial writ granted to a person for a free chase belonging to his manor after proof made by inquiry of a jury that the same of right belongs to him. Wharton.
—Libera eleemosyna. In old English law. Free alms; frankaimoigne. Bract, fol. 27b.
—Libera falda. In old English law. Frank fold; free fold; free foldage. 1 Leon. 11.
—Libera lex. In old English law. Free law; frank law; the law of the land. The law enjoyed by free and lawful men, as distinguished from such men as have lost the benefit and protection of the law in consequence of crime. Hence this term denoted the status of a man who stood guiltless before the law, and was free, in the sense of being entitled to its full protection and benefit. Amittere liberam legem (to lose one's free law) was to fall from that status by crime or infamy. See Co. Litt. 94b.
—Libera piscaria. In old English law. A free fishery. Ca. Litt. 122a.
—Libera war-rena. In old English law. Free warren, (q. vt)

A livery or delivery of s0 much corn or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn, and received some part or small portion of it as a reward or gratuity. Cowell,