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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Going to law; litigation.

Holinshed.

Noun.

[So called because done in compliance with an English forest

law

Expeditation.

Blackstone.

Noun.

Expeditation; the act of cutting off the claws and balls of the fore feet of mastiffs to prevent them from running after deer.

lawing ‎(plural lawings)

Going to law; litigation.
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