"Plow-Alms" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

In old English law. A certain portion or measure of wheat, anclent-ly paid to the church on St. Martin's day; …

That klnd of punlshment used by the anclents, and still used by the Chlnese, called by Staunton the “wooden collnr,” …

(Ten. times as tnueh.) The name of an anclent writ that was used against a juror who had taken a …

The privilege which anclent-ly several lords reserved to themselves of set-tiDg up folds for sheep in any fields within their …

Henry the old, or*Elder. Klng Henry I. ls so called in anclent English chronicles and charters, to dis-tinguish hlm from …

An anclent writ that lay for the lord, who, bavlng by right the wardship of bis tenant under age, could …

In old English law. A klnd of anclent money, or silver half-pence; a small rent

A penny anclently paid at the town of Maldon by those wbo had gutters laid or made out of thelr …

A collection or institute of the earliest laws of anclent India. The work Is of very remote antiquity

Lat. In old crim-lnal law. The cutting off a foot; a punishment anclently Inflicted Instead of death. Fleta, lib. 1, …

In Roman law. Anclently a specles of commissiou granted by the eomitia to one or more persons for the pur-pose …

In maritime law. The name of an anclent officer, whose business was to load and unload vessels laden with salt, …

Lands and tenements which were not heid by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit, hut by simple servlces; …

In old Irish law. A spe-cles of tenure, founded on anclent usage, which allotted the lnherltance of lands, cas-tles, etc., …

An anclent and au-thentic record In two volumes, ln the cus-tody of the klng’s remembrancer ln the ex-chequer, sald to …

A wrlt which anclently lay against persons who had