Middle English Dictionary Entry
nōn-suit(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | nōn-suit(e n. |
| Etymology | AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. non-sute adj.
1.
(a) Law The failure of a plaintiff to prosecute his claim or to provide sufficient evidence; (b) failure to follow.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1308-9) RParl.1.273b : Ele fust amercie en xx liveres pur une Nonsute de un plee envers Thomas de Nicontimbre, warned devant Sire Johan de Metingham. ]
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1595 : For þough men pleede and poursuye and in þaire playntz falle And newe þaym aftre nonsuyte [read: nonsuytes] nynetene hunthred, Withoute grovnde or guilte but forto gete a bribe, Yit shal þay haue no harme þough þay hurle euer.
b
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)410 : But ech prest may liȝtly þus sue crist ȝif he lette not hym silf, & þus synne excusiþ hym not þat he synne not in þis noun suyt.