Middle English Dictionary Entry
surrendre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | surrendre n. Also surrender, -dur. |
| Etymology | From AF surrendre inf. as noun & surrendour n.; also cp. ME surrendren v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Law The giving up of an estate, a grant of land, or an interest in property to the person who holds the right to it; (b) law the relinquishing of letters patent to the king; (c) the giving back or return of something.
Associated quotations
a
- (1423) Pet.Sutton in Fenland NQ 7307 : Yt the lordes officers coillors..be chargyd at thaire accompt of the same rent that was wonte to be take of the said londe before surrendre made in to the lords hande.
- (1430) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.86 : Robert shall make..William and Philipp..to attorn and surrende all here estate in the saide landis..to the saide Richard Neuton..ffor the wich surrendre..the saide lord shall paye to the forsaid Robert xxti mark.
- (1450) RParl.5.194a : Upon the surrendre of the said Lande..we graunted the said parcell of lande..to the said Rees and William John, for terme of there lyves.
b
- (1448) Doc.in Sundby Dial.Wor.(Eg Charter 608)255 : The..surrendur shal be to the entent that..the kyng that now is shal graunte of newe by his letters patens the foreseid xxij li. vn to the seid Thomas.
- (1449) RParl.5.167a : Thomas..to have..the same Office..as sone as that Office to your hand..by deth, cession..permutacion, reddicion, or surrendre..happe to falle.
- (1464) RParl.5.528a : L Marc by us soo graunted was in recompence, and for the surrender into oure Chancerie, of oure Lettres Patentes of Graunte..of the Office of the Portership.
c
- (1457) Indent.Prior in Palaeog.Soc.3 (Hrl Charter 44.B.47)260 : The seid Prioure graunteth and yevith to the forseid Alisandre at his comynge ynne the seyleclothes, withowte ony surrendre in his goyinge owte.