dlesex; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in which it was “testified that the defendant lurke [latitat] and wanders about” in the county. 3 Bl. Comm. 286. Abolished by St. 2 Wm. IV. c. 39.

Lat. In the civil law. a sum paid by a new emphyteuta (qg. v.) who acquires the emphyteusis, not as heir, but as a singular successor, whether by gift, devise, exchange, or sale. It was a sum equal to the fiftieth part of the purchase money, paid to the dominus or proprietor for his acceptance of the new emphyteuta. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 328. Called, in old English law, “acknowledgment money.” Cowell.