ESSOIN.
Essoin, Essonium, and sometimes exonium, and sometimes without x or s is a word forensall and cometh of an obsolete French word essonier, or exonier, to excuse and free from care, from the word soingnire. It is an excuse made for the Te∣nant
A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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- A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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or defendant who would not appear, and be admitted in reall actions, or to Suiters in Court baron for five causes.
- 1. De malo viae sive veniendi, where the Tenant* 1.1 would not come in respect of some impossi∣bility, or durst not in regard of some emi∣nent danger, and this is called es••onium com∣mune.
- 2. De malo lecti, where some disease hindereth, which according to its nature giveth longer or shorter day, Glan cap. 19.
- 3. Tenus mare, which is cast on the behalf of the Tenant when he is beyond the Seas, and this is for fourty daies at least, Glanvillus cap. 25.
- 4. Servitium Regis, when the Tenant is in the Kings service, and then the plea resteth with∣out day untill he retur, Glanvillus cap. 27.
- 5. De terra sancta, where the Tenant or Defendant was in pilgrimage to the holy Land, or as vo∣luntier against the Saracens, and then a year and a day at the least was allowed by the Essoin.
Essoin is sometimes taken for any excuse of As∣size in Clarendon tempore. H. 2. Forenden. p. 549. Nulli liceat hospitari aliquem extraneum ultra unam noctem in domo sua, nisi hospitatus ille essonium ratio∣nabile habuerit.
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* 1.1
See Cooks 2 part of Instit. c. 12.