Middle English Dictionary Entry
versus prep.
Entry Info
Forms | versus prep. |
Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law Against (one claimant in a dispute).
Associated quotations
- (1448) Shillingford53 : Men defauteth ryght by his comaundement…the jugement by twene…John Husset versus John Notte.
- (1451) Paston2.75 : I send yow þe scire facias for Osbern and Foke versus Heydon and Wyndam.