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If a Ball be stopp’d by any Person, Horse, Dog or anything else, The Ball so stop’d must be play’d where it lyes.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 31, 2020

He whose ball lyes farthest from the hole is obliged to play first.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018

If a ball be stopp’d by any person, horse, dog, or anything else, the ball so stopp’d must be play’d where it lyes.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018

But there are many Smatterers and ignorant Fellows, that would fain reconcile the ancient Writers, and excuse these lyes; not seeing what damage they bring to the Common-wealth of Learning.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Here one of them must have tripped over the slack-lying wire cable which drew the little tubs of coal up the incline from the lyes to the foot of the shaft.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian