LOT

The arbitrament 01' chance; hazard. That which fortuitously determines what course shall be taken or what disposl• tion ie made of property or rights. A share; one of several parcels into whlcb property ls divided. Used particularly 01' land. · The thirteenth dish of lead In the mines 01' Derby shire, which belong to the crown. LOT AND SCOT, In English law. Certain duties which must be paid by those w.ho claim to exercise the elective franchise within certain cities and boroughs, before they are entitled to vote. It ls said that the practice became uniform to refer to the poor rate as a register of "scot and lot" voters; so that. the term, when employed to define a right 01' election, meant only the payment bJ a parishioner of the sum to which he was a· e ed on the poor-rate. Brown. LOT OF LAND, A small tract or parcel 01' land Jn a village, town, or city, suitable 1'or bullding, or 1'or a garden, or other simllar uses. See Pilz v. Killings worth, 20 Or. 432, 26 Pac. 305; Wilson v. Proctor, 28 Minn. 13, 8 N. w. 830; Webster v. Little Rock, 44 Ark. 551; Diamond Mach. Co. v. On to nag on, 72 l\fich. 261, 40 N. W. 448; Fitzgera:ld v. Thomas, 61 Mo. 500; Phillips burgh v. Bruch, 37 N. J. Eq. 486.. LOTHER WITE, or [s. 745]