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...]

That portion of an intestate's effects which his children were entitled to by the custom of London. This custom appears to have been a remnant of what was once a general law all over England, namely, that a father should not by his will bequeath the entirety of his personal estate away from his family, but should leave them a third part at least, called the "children's part," … [Read more...]

Latin: In the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious birth. Dig. 50, 16, 38. … [Read more...]