Definition of Yeoman
In English law, a commoner; a freeholder under the rank of gentleman. A man who has free land of forty shillings by the year, who was anciently thereby qualified to serve on juries, vote for knights of the shire, and do any other act, where the law requires one that is probus et legalis homo. 1 Bl.Comm. 406, 407.
This term is occasionally used in American law, but without any definite meaning, except in the United States navy, where it designates an appointive petty officer who performs clerical duties usually associated with office workers.
That's the definition of Yeoman in Black's Law Dictionary 6th Edition. Courtesy of Cekhukum.com.
