YEOMAN
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
man. Cowell. A man who has free land of forty shillings by the year; who was anciently thereby qualified to serve on juries, vote for knights of the shire, and do any othet ‘act, Where the law requires one that is probus et legalis homo. 1 BL Comm. 406,
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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