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Precariae

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

or PRECES (Law Lat.)

In old English law. Days' works, which the tenants of some manors were bound, by which Spelman supposes to be a corruption of "biden days," which in Saxon, answered to dies precariae (literally, pray days, or praiyed days), the Saxon biden signifying to pray. Spelman; Cowell.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Day’s work performed as an incident to certain tenures.