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Definition of Leats
1. leat [n] - See also: leat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leats
Literary usage of Leats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sheppard's Precedent of Precedents: Or One General Precedent for Common by Thomas Walter Williams, William Sheppard (1825)
"... and assigns doing as little damage as possible to the houses, stamping mills,
leats, fields, and premises, in using the several liberties and licences ..."
2. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... drifts, shafts, pits, and leats, and do all other reasonable acts necessary
in the ordinary course of mining, for the purpose of discovering, raising, ..."
3. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon (1850)
"... and to make pits and leats within the said undivided moiety, as the plaintiff
should think necessary for the more effectual exercise of the liberties, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Queen's Bench Practice Court by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Alfred Septimus Dowling, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, John James Lowndes (1850)
"&c, land, and certain leats, « c , necessary for washing, &c., the said clay ;
that after the plaintiff had become sO entitled, and bad begun to ..."
5. The Artist, the Merchant, and the Statesman, of the Age of the Medici, and by Charles Edwards Lester (1845)
"Why, if I tore my clothes, I was as ragged as the leats; if I carried a dirty
face, I was as dirty as the leats; and if I failed to do my task in time, ..."
6. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Francis Towers Streeten, Henry John Hodgson (1852)
"... and to make pits and leats within the said undivided moiety, as the plaintiff
should think necessary for the more effectual exercise of the liberties, ..."
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