|
|
Definition of Corody
1. n. An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.
Definition of Corody
1. Noun. (alternative form of corrody) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corody
1. an allowance of food or clothes [n -DIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corody
Literary usage of Corody
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"And those persons, disinherited of the lands by their relations, were there
subsisted during life. See a form of corody, Barr. stat. 80, n. (9. ..."
2. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"(37) Lord Coke cites no authority for this, tor they all said, that if the corody
be to have But in 8 E. 4. 17. there is a case, which certain bread and ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; with an Analysis of the by William Blackstone, Edward Christian, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Lee, John Eykyn Hovenden, Archer Ryland (1838)
"The king is entitled to a corody, as the law calk it, out of every bishopric,
that is, to send one of his chaplains to be maintained by the bishop, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Sergeant, Thomas M'Kean Pettit (1851)
"If an abbot of his own head grants to A. a corody, without more, ... (of the
religious house in which the corody is to be granted)." T. 22 E. 4, fo. 18, pl. ..."
Other Resources:
