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Definition of Lawing
1. n. Going to law; litigation.
2. n. Expeditation.
Definition of Lawing
1. Noun. Going to law; litigation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lawing
1. a bill for food or drink in a tavern [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawing
Literary usage of Lawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The King's Peace: A Historical Sketch of the English Law Courts by Frederick Andrew Inderwick (1895)
"The Forest Laws—Dooms of Canute—Primarii—Medial Thanes —Tithing Men—Trial of
Forest Causes—lawing of Dogs— The Confessor—The Conqueror—The New Forest—-No ..."
2. Rights of Common and Other Prescriptive Rights: Being Twenty-four Lectures by Joshua Williams (1880)
"lawing of dogs. erect or build any more houses or buildings than are already
builded there, without especial licence of the king or his justice in eyre. ..."
3. Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Prepared by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Court of Chancery, H. C. Maxwell Lyte, William Henry Stevenson (1904)
"... to be acquitted of the lawing (erpe<lita- cione) of their dogs without the
bridge aforesaid and in the hamlets pertaining to the manor of ..."
4. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1890)
"We are now come to clear up his lawing.' 9 ' OI had a stranger here late last
night, But he was lang gane or the dawing ; He called for a pint, ..."
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