(a) Law To appropriate (common land) to one's own use and profit [in accordance with the Statutes of Merton (1236) and Westminster (1285)]; -- refl. & intr.; (b) to assign (sth.) as property; (c) to……

Law The act of distraining (sb.) to appear in court, or of sequestering (property); also, a writ of distraint, writ of attachement. …

Law (a) To distrain or bind (sb.) to appear in court; attachen bodi, distrain (someone's) person; attachen bi borwes; (b) to take into custody, arrest (sb.), take prisoner; (c) to sequester or attach……

Law A person formally designated or appointed to represent a litigant in court or to transact official business; legal agent, attorney, advocate; attourne general, advocate empowered to act in all……

Law The practice of aiding a litigant for a share of the matter in dispute, champerty. …

(a) Found out, ascertained; (b) law the finding of an inquest; also, an inquest. …

(a) To write or compose (a book, poem, letter, etc.);--with or without obj.; (b) to write (in a certain language, manner, or style); (c) to compose (a song, a Psalm); (d) of oral composition or……

Law (a) To confirm or approve (a charter, bill, agreement, etc.), [orig. by writing on the back of the document];--also fig.; (b) to approve a reply to (a petition), to grant (a petition) under seal……

The comforts of life, conveniences; accommodation, entertainment; shelter, lodging; food and drink, provender; at your esement, at your convenience. …

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) Scum or grease floating on a liquid; (b) law the legal right to flotsam. …

(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

Law A third writ of attachment, issued when the first and second prove ineffectual; writ of) pluries capias. …

Law A royal or an official perambulation of a royal forest, a city, country, etc., to determine its bounds. …

(a) Acquisition, gain; also, something acquired or received, a possession; wealth, property, goods; fig. something possessed as a natural gift [quot.: Capgr.], something earned or deserved; ben of……

law the surface or expressed meaning of a document, stipulation, etc. (sometimes contrasted with tenour, its true and essential meaning; sometimes perhaps more generally, the contents or substance of……

(a) Law An illegal occupation or encroachment upon land; unauthorized use of common, private, or royal land or of waterways, as by damming or diversion; (b) a payment or rent due to the legal owner of……

(a) Law A legal process for the temporary restoration of confiscated property pending a court hearing; also, the restoration of privileges; (b) a writ of replevin. …

(a) Law A fixed charge or expense deducted annually from the revenues of an estate; over the reprise, aboven all charges and reprise, etc., net; (b) cost, expense; (c) ?act of taking back, capturing……

(a) Likely to return; of Christ: appointed to return; of chance: rebounding to and fro; also, reciprocal [last quot.]; (b) law of a writ or other document: designated to be returned to a court by a……