YEOMAN. In the United States this word does not appear to have any very exact meaning. It is usually put as an addition to the names of parties in declarations and indictments1. In England it signifies a free man who has land of the value of forty shillings a year. 2 Inst. 668; 2 Dall. 92.
YIELDING AND PAYING, contracts. These words, when used in a lease, constitute a covenant2 on the part of the lessee3 to pay the rent; Platt on Coven. 50; 3 Penna. Rep. 464; 1 Sid. 447, pl. 9; 2 Lev. 206; 3 T. R. 402; 1 Barn. & Cres. 416; S. C. 2 Dow. & Ry. 670; but whether it be an express covenant or not, seems not to be settled. Sty. 387, 406, 451; Sid. 240, 266; 2 Lev. 206; S. C., T. Jones, 102 3 T. R. 402.
2. In Pennsylvania, it has been decided4 to be a covenant running with the land. 3 Penna. Reports, 464. Vide 1 Saund. 233, n. 1; 9 Verm. R. 191.
YORK, STATUTE5 OF. The name of an English statute, passed 12 Edw. II., Anno Domini 1318, and so called because it was enacted6 at York. It contains many wise provisions and explanations of former statutes7. Barr. on the Stat. 174. There were other statutes made at York in the reign8 of Edw. III., but they do not bear this name.
YOUNG ANIMALS. It is a rule that the young of domestic or tame animals belong to the owner of the dam or mother, according to the maxim9 Partus sequitur ventrem. Dig. 6, 1, 5, 2; Inst. 2, 1, 9.