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Legal privilege under Anglo-Norman law
Waif and stray was a legal privilege commonly granted by the Crown to landowners under Anglo-Norman law. It usually appeared as part of a standard formula in charters granting privileges to estate-holders, along the lines of "with sac and soc, toll and team, infangthief and outfangthief" and so on. A waif was an item of ownerless and unclaimed property found on a landowner's territory, while a str... Wikipedia