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2. | livery - the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another Synonyms: legal transfer, delivery | |
3. | livery - the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay | |
Adj. | 1. | livery - suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress |
LIVERY, Engl. law. 1. The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight's service. 2. Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to obtain the possession of seisin of his lands at the king's hands. F. N. B. 155. 3. It signifies, in the third place, the clothes given by a nobleman or gentleman to his servant.
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