Certain districts or tracts of lands in the Orkney Islands were formerly so called, because each paid an annual tax of one ounce of silver. … [Read more...]

The lierwite or fine paid to the lord by the inferior, tenant when his daughter was debauched. Cowell. … [Read more...]

To put out; to eject; to remove or deprive; to deprive of the possession or enjoyment of an estate or franchise. … [Read more...]

torts. An ouster is the actual turning out, or keeping excluded, the party entitled to possession of any real property corporeal. 2. An ouster can properly be only from real property corporeal, and cannot be committed of anything movable; nor is a mere temporary trespass considered as an Guster. Any continuing act of exclusion from the enjoyment, constitutes an ouster, even by … [Read more...]

L. Fr. Literally, out of the hand. 1. A delivery of lands out of the king's hands by judgment given in favor of the petitioner in a monstrous de droit. 2. A delivery of the ward's lands out of the hands of the guardian, on the former arriving at the proper age, which was twenty-one in males, and sixteen in females. Abolished by 12 Car. II. c. 24. Mozley A Whitley. … [Read more...]