(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

Law A surveyor or assessor. …

Law Survey, appraisal, or valuation of land or other property for purposes of taxation; (b) assessed value; (c) tax levied on such valuation; also, income from taxes. …

(a) Law The right of jurisdiction over cases involving the harboring of fugitives or outlaws, the right to collect fines in such cases [orig. prob., the offence of entertaining an outlaw]; (b) in……

Law (a) Disturbances or violence committed toward persons, at places, or during specific periods that were under special protection of the king; also (after 1200), any breach of the peace; (b)……

(a) Law A legal claim or right; also fig.; haven interesse in (of), to have a claim upon (sth.), have rights in (sth.); (b) the right to claim compensation for damage; ?also, damage, injury; (c) the……

(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

Law A relinquishing to another of a legal right or interest in its entirety. …

(a) Recovery from illness, injury, poverty, misfortune, etc., relief; also, the power of or capacity for recovery; at no recover, in a weakened state; of hard recover, slow in recovering from an……

Law The act of gaining possession of property, income, money owed, etc. by legal action; haven recoveri ayen, ?to receive amends from (sb. for damage or harm committed). …

(a) Harm, injury; loss, damage; misfortune; danger; also, a harm, danger; to scath, to (a person's) harm or detriment; (b) harm or injury resulting from battle or war; defeat; (c) harm resulting from……

Law: (a) Seizin, possession in freehold, freq. indicated or established by actual or physical possession; also, the right to something [quot.: c1436, 2nd]; also, the ceremony at which seizin is……

(a) Particular affection, fondness; special favor, partiality; close friendship; bi (for, of) specialte; in specialte, as a favor, out of affection; also, in friendship [last quot.]; speches of……

(a) Law A domestic animal found wandering away from its home or enclosure and subject to impoundment and, if unredeemed, to forfeiture, an estray; -- also coll.; also, the right to impound an estray……

(a) Physical strength, muscular power, brute might of body; also, the stamina of hounds during the chase [1st quot.]; drauen (taken) awei with streng, to remove (a plaster) roughly; (b) pl. mighty……

(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……

Law A grant providing a trade license. …

A person who lacks regular employment or a livelihood, one without fixed abode, a tramp, vagabond; law a person willfully unemployed, a violator of the Statute of Laborers, a vagrant. …

(a) Worthiness in terms of the chivalric virtues, nobility of character or breeding; also, spiritual worth [quot. ?a1475]; also, courtliness, refinement [quot. a1500(?a1400)]; of valour (b) bravery,……

Law Formal corroboration by sworn testimony, deposition. …