of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. IT.. which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101.—Lay impropriator. In English eccle- Siastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72.—Lay ine vestiture. In ecclesiastical law. The cere mony of putting a bishop in ssion of the temporalities of his diocese—Lay judge. A judge who is not learned in the law, f. e., not a lawyer; formerly employed in some of the States a8 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.