" Livy somewhere has the following--"Grassor in
possessionem agri"--which would be rendered, "To enter upon it by force;"
it being only by the payment of the fine (Grasson) that the entry,
"Grassor," or alienation of copyhold lands, could be warded off: hence the
act of the lord of the manor (Grassor) became the name for the fine paid by
this tenant, "Grasson."
BLOWER.
_Lynch Law_ (Vol. iii., p. 24.).--Webster's {77} _American Dictionary_
(1848) explains this phrase thus--
"The practice of punishing men for crimes and offences by private
unauthorized persons, without a legal trial. The term is said to be
derived from a Virginian farmer, named Lynch, who thus took the law
into his own hands." (U.S.)
Webster is considered the highest authority in America, or I should not
offer the above.
G.H.B.
"_Talk not of Love_" (Vol. iii., p. 7.).--The song quoted by your Querist,
A. M., was written by Mrs. MacLehose, the "Clarinda" of Burns, and is to be
found in most of the lives of the Scottish poet.
[J.H., JR., says it is printed in Chambers's _Journal_, No. 1. New
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