Not an expert. Not a professional. Usually referred to as someone without legal training.
(noun) – A share of the profits of a fishing or whaling voyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages.
(verb) – To state or allege in pleading. Lay damages. To state at the conclusion of the declaration the amount of damages which the plaintiff claims. Lay out. This term has come to be used technically in highway laws as embracing all the series of acts necessary to the complete establishment of a highway. Cone v. Hartford, 28 Conn. 375. ” Laying the venue. Stating in the margin of a declaration the county in which the plaintiff proposes that the trial of the action shall take place.
(adjective) – Relating to persons or things not clerical or ecclesiastical; a person not in ecclesiastical orders. Also non-professional. Lay corporation. See CORPORATION. Lay days. In the law of shipping. Days allowed in charter-parties for loading and unloading the cargo. 3 Kent, Comm. 202, 203. Lay fee. A fee held by ordinary feudal tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II., which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101. Lay impropriator. In English ecclesiastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72. Lay investiture. In ecclesiastical law. The ceremony of putting a bishop in possession of the temporalities of his diocese. Lay judge. A judge who is not learned In the law, t. e., not a lawyer; formerly employed in Borne of the states as assessors or assistants to the presiding judges in the nisi prius courts or courts of first instance. Lay people. Jurymen. Layman. One of the people, and not one of the clergy; one who is not of the legal profession; one who is not of a particular profession.