Middle English Dictionary Entry
warantī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | warantī(e n. Also warrauntẹ̄. |
| Etymology | OF/AF war(r)antie, vars. of OF garantie. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. warancie n.
1.
(a) A formal guarantee or assurance of quality; also, the validation or authorization of one’s claim on God’s mercy (provided by Christ’s passion);
(b) law a guarantee of title to property, a formal assurance of the right to possession of property, often included as part of a deed, letters patent, etc.; also, a guarantee of title made in addition to or superseding some legal conveyance of property [quot. 1429]; clause of ~; holden in ~, to control or possess (land) by permission of or contract with a feudal superior.
Associated quotations
a
- c1430 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/2)p.67 : Vnderstondeþ…vp-on peyne of þe a-mercy of þe bygere and of þe sellere to-fore þat time wythoute warant þei be in þe mercy þat it waranteþ, and þo þat doþ a-ȝeue þe warantye.
- c1450 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (StJ-C G.25)p.177 : Warantie [vr. warraunt; Hrl 874: Alle shullen ben dampned…þat ne han no warantise of þe passioun of Iesu crist].
- a1500 Apoc.(2) (Magd-C F.4.5)108/19 : Warantye [Hrl 171: Alle schulen be dampned…þat han not þe warantise of Cristis passioun].
b
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.263 : He had…gyuen þam…Þer wynnyng ilk a dele þat þei mot reyme & gyue, Holdand in warantie of him & of his heyres.
- (1429) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.75 : He permittith and shall discontinue or make discontinue and defeet or make defeet—be warantie or warantise collaterale…þe foresaid taile or tailez.
- (1439) Papers Trevelyan in Camd.6719 : Y…have relessidde, with warrawntee to theym and to theire heris…al my ryght, title, and clayme, the which y have of and in all the seyde maneris, landis, and tenementis.
- (1439) RParl.5.10b : Therof have do made astate to you and to youre heires…with clause of Warantie.
- (1464) RParl.5.550a : Richard…by his Dede with warantie…relesed to certeyn persones all his right, title, and cleyme…in the seid Maner.
- (1495) Statutes Realm2.614 : You…ne youre heiris be not bounden to warant the seid Manoris…by reason of any warantye comprised in the same lettres patentes.