LAWYER

A person learned in the 1aw; u an attorney, counsel, or solicitor. Any person who, for fee or reward, prosecutes or defends· causes in courts of record or other judicial tribunals of the United Sta.tes, er of any of the states, or whose busine it is to give legal advice in relation to any cause or matter whatever. Act of July 13, 1866, § 9, {14 St. at Large, 121.) LAY, n.. A share of the profits ot a fishing or whaling voyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages. Coffin v. Jenkins, 5 Fed. Cas. 1190; Thomas v. Osborn. 19 How. 33, 15 L. Ed. 534. LAY, 11. To state or allege in pleading. ~Lay damages. To state at the conclusion of the declaration tlle amount of damages which the plaintiff claims.-Lay out. This term has come to be used technically in high• way laWll as embracing all tha series of acts nece ary to the complete establishment of a highway. Cone v. Hartford, 28 Conn. 375.- Laying the venue. Stating in the margin of a declaration the county in which the plaintiff propose& that the trial of the action shall. take place. LAY, adJ. Relating to persons or things not clerical or ecclesiastical; a person not in ecclesiastical orders. Also non-profe ional. -Lay corporation. See CoRP OBA TION.-, Lay days. In the law of shipping. Days al• lowed· in. charter-parties for loading and uµloa9• in,g the cargo. 3.Kent, Comm. 202, 203.- Lay fee. A fee held by ordinary feudal ten• are, as 'distinguished from the ecclesiastical ·. ' te,nure of, ~kalmoign, by which,. an ecclesi~ •tical corpOration held of the donor. The tenure. [s. 710]