Middle English Dictionary Entry
mīse n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | mīse n.(1) |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Expenditure; mises and expenses (costes), expenditures and expenses (costs); (b) law a plea; joinen ~, to join the issue, when the tenant in a writ of right submits a plea contesting the plea submitted by the demandant; jointure of ~; at their ouen ~, by their own plea, by their own admission of guilt.
Associated quotations
a
- (1469) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1333 : And allso rollys to be made of the misis and costes.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)88/10 : The mysis and expensis I-had by the defaute of the said Iohn and Robert or of ther executours.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)134/4 : Whan the Myses and the exspensis of folargesse ouer-Passyth the rentis reuenueth of the roialme and the receitis, than moste the kynge of his Peple har goodis take.
b
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)33 : Ȝif the pleyntyff..holdeth hym to the cheeff plee, thanne go forth the plee..saff in the ioynture of that myse.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)37 : Thanne go forth the plee be twixen the partyes..And after that myse iointe, have the partyes her delayes be essoyne.
- (1453) RParl.5.270b : And in cas that they or any of theym..appere nat..by auctorite aforeseid be atteynt and convict of the same felonye, rape, and trespace..as they were atteynt and convict at theire own myse.
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)450/346 : Ofte I sett upon false assyce rayvinge poore with layinge myse.