Middle English Dictionary Entry
vǒuchẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vǒuchẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law (a) A person summoned to court to warrant or defend a title to goods or property;
(b) ~ garant, ?the practice of summoning a person to provide guarantee of title, or an instance of it.
Associated quotations
a
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)37 : Ȝif that vouche [ID(1): cely vouchee] come in to court and warantise, be he in stede of the tenaunt to…defendyn his righte.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)39 : If the pleyntyff tende to have it…that the same vouche hath inough in…Gippewych to warantene the value…and vp on this axe jugement of the foreyn vouche…be it awarded to the pleyntyff.
- (1485) RParl.6.293b : Please it…youre…Maisters…to pray the King…to ordeine…that the said Recoveries and Judgements…as ayenst…the Vouchees in the same and theire heires, be utterly…adnulled.
b
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)37 : Ȝif eny lond tenaunt in that toune in such plee, or in other plee of lond hangyng be wryt…be it vouche garraunt, be he vouchyd be helpe of the same court…be he summouned…oonys, twyes, or thryes ȝif myster be.