Law To make a copy or multiple copies of (an agreement, etc.) by means of a chirograph. …

(a) Of reasoning: acceptable, admissible; of an action: permissible; (b) law of persons: allowed, entitled, having the right (to defend a case in a certain manner). …

Law (a) the activity of a professional pleader in courts of law, advocacy; (b) the advocacy performed by a prosecutor, a charge or accusation; (c) theol. intercession or advocacy on behalf of a sinner……

(a) Law A formal declaration or deposition; (b) the citing of authorities (esp. the Scriptures) in support of a doctrine or opinion; (c) the expression of an opinion or objection; assertion……

Law Authorization. …

Law A writ authorizing payment (as of a pension or allowance); writ allocate. …

(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

(a) Law To alienate (property) in mortmain; -- usu. with to phrase; (b) to hold (property) in mortmain. …

(a) To interrogate (sb.), ask (sb.) a question; ask (a question); (b) to rebuke (sb.), censure. …

Law (a) To make a (specific) claim, esp. in writing; (b) make a (specific) charge or accusation, to challenge; articlen agains, onto (sb.); (c) answer a charge point by point. …

Law Point by point, in detail; specifically. …

Sight, view; inspection, scrutiny. …

Law (a) A writ of arrest; also the serving of such a writ, an arrest; (b) capias utlagāt, capias legāt, a writ directing the arrest of an outlawed person. …

Law To make (sth.) null and void, annul, quash; abolish (a guild). …

(a) To cause, effect, or produce (sth.); (b) to bring about or induce (an event or situation); cause (an action); (c) to bring (sth.) into existence, produce; (d) cause causing [L causa causans]……

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

Law The act of finding a person guilty of an offense, conviction. …

To incorporate or assimilate (sth.). …

(a) The territory ruled by a count; also, an English earldom; also fig.; (b) ?country, territory. …

To pass adverse judgment upon (sth., sb.); condemn or repudiate (a doctrine); object to or condemn (a practice); ban (a book); blame, censure or criticize (sb.). …

Law A writ commissioning a private person to administer an oath of office. …

(a) The state of being dependent; (b) law an action or fact growing out of a legal action, consequence, result. …

Usually law (a) Disposition or settlement of a suit or dispute; decision, verdict; doom, undoing; (b) power to adjudicate, jurisdiction. …

(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle. …

Law A written formal agreement. [For method of preparation, see endenten; endentures, pair of endentures are the several identical copies of the agreement.] (a) The written record of a lease or of an……

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……

(a) To gather, collect, or acquire (something) in large quantity or numbers; (b) to accumulate or buy (goods) in such quantity as to cause scarcity, to forestall (the market), to corner (a commodity……

(a) To ask (a question, or questions), to ask for (specific information);--often with of phr. of the person questioned; (b) enqueren after, of, upon, to ask about (someone or something); ben enquering……

(a) Purpose or intention; aim or object; reason (for doing something); (b) of entente, intentionally, deliberately, voluntarily; double of entente, ?shifty; (c) for, in, til, to, with (the) entente……

Law?A statute or ordinance. …

Law A writ requiring a defendant to appear on pain of outlawry; the condition of a person named in such a writ; putten in exigend, ben at exigend. …

Law The right to impose a fine for hanging a culprit without legal trial; also, an acquittance of amercement for such an offense. …

(a) To take possession of (land), enclose; (b) to enclose (cattle); fig. encircle (sb.) in battle; (c) law to impound (cattle). …

(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 commandment (of God, Christ, Mohammed, etc.) regulating human conduct; fixed precept or rule of conduct (contained in the law of God or a religious rule); one of the Ten Commandments; (b) coll.……

(a) Deliberate killing of a human being, murder; morther of self, soule morther, spiritual suicide or death; (b) in prov. sayings: morther wil out, etc.; (c) a massacre; (d) crime, outrage; injury or……

(a) Death; (b) renunciation of self and the world; mortificacioun of the flesh (bodi), mortificacioun of sinne, penitential asceticism. …

Law The sheriff's reply to a writ directing him to arrest a defendant, indicating that the defendant is not to be found within the sheriff's jurisdiction. …

(a) Notwithstanding, in spite of; (b) law clause of non-obstant, a clause used in statutes and letters patent in which the king authorized an action contrary to established law. …

Law Acquisition by deceitful means. …

(a) Origin, source; ancestry of a person; a source of a river; also fig.; haven original of (in), to originate in (sth.); taken original of (from), arise from (sth.); originate in (a place); of a……

Law Fishing rights. …

(a) Space, extension in two or three dimensions, room, area; also fig.; biriden so muche place, to ride over so much area, cover so much ground; haven place, have room; occupien place, occupy space……

Law Of a tithe: based on the amount of produce from an area of land. …

Pl. (a) Aforesaid matters, previously stated points; (b) preliminary plans, preparations; premis of the welcominge, preparations for the welcome. …

Law A writ summoning (sb.) to appear for contempt of the king's jurisdiction, so-called from the words 'premunire facias' which occur in the text of the writ. …

(a) Law Title or right acquired by virtue of uninterrupted possession or use for a period of time sufficient, according to law, to establish such claim; (b) sentence of exile, proscription [error for……

(a) The formal act or ceremony of dedicating an infant or a young child to God or to a pagan deity; also, the Christian Feast of the Presentation, Candlemas; (b) the formal induction of an elected……

(a) An act of offering or presenting a gift; an offer of a gift, money, reward, help, etc.; (b) an offer of battle, a challenge; a peace offer or proposal, an offer to surrender; fig. the Devil's……

Law To relinquish one's right to (money, property, the performance of an obligation, a legal claim), quitclaim. …

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

(a) Law A relinquishing to another of the entirety of alegal right or interest, esp. in real property; a deed of release, quitclaim deed; chartre of quite-claime; (b) gon quite-claime, to go free……

Law A royal writ of inquiry to determine by what warrant a person held an office or franchise. …

(a) To relate events, describe; say (sth.), state, recount; -- sometimes with clause; ppl. recited, mentioned; (b) law to state (sth.) in a legal proceeding; -- sometimes with clause; (c) to offer up……

Law To resume possession of (land held by a tenant). …

Remembrance or recollection of something; of record, in remembrance. …

(a) Exception, waiver; (b) Law A transfer of property, ?quitclaim. …

Law ?A letter or brief in response to a decision; ?an appeal. …

(a) Revenue from property, income; also fig.; (b) a source of revenue or income, property yielding revenue; -- usu. pl.; lond and (or) rent, rent and lond, londes and (ne, other) rentes; (c) wealth……

(a) Deliverance, rescue; assistance, help; also, defense; also fig.; rescous of oure lei, defense of our faith; don rescous, to render aid; maken rescous, render aid, rescue something; also, prepare……

A return, a coming back; maken resort, to return. …

(a) To return, go back; of sickness, the Golden Age: recur, come again; resorten hom, return home; ben resorted, be come again; (b) resorten to (in-to, unto), to return to (sb., a place or position……

(a) An act of returning to a place or state, a return; also, retaliation; sauns return, without fail; (b) law the sending back of a writ or other document to a court with a report, a return; a report……

(a) To turn about, turn around; also fig.; returnen ayen; returnen to (upon), turn back to face (sb.); (b) to make a turn, change direction; fig. revolt; returnen unto, turn toward (sb.); returnen to……

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) To urge (sb. to do sth.), invite, call upon; order (sb. to do sth.); -- also with that clause; ben somned, be called upon (to do sth.), be obliged; ben somned to, be invited to (a feast); (b) ?to……

(a) A slash, cut; (b) a style, fashion, manner in which cloth is cut; (c) physical appearance, shape; (d) coll. slips of wood, cuttings; also [1st quot.], ?a thicket; ?undergrowth [this word and the……

Chiefly law A copy of a document, transcript; also [quot. 1472-5], ?an escheat; ?a written promise to pay. …

(a) Confidence (in sb. or sth.), reliance (on sb. or sth.), trust; haven trust, to have confidence (in sb. or sth.), rely (on sb. or sth.); with inf.: haven more trust..thanne, think it preferable (to……

(a) Law A decision rendered by a jury in an inquest or a court case, verdict; verdit yeldinge; yeven verdit; seien (supposen) for verdit, to find (that sth. is or was the case), make a ruling (b) a……

In phrase: ben vested in, law of property: to be secured in the possession of (sb.). …

(a) The status of a villein; excepcioun of vileinage, law a plea in which a defendant objects that a plaintiff’s claims ought to be disallowed owing either to the latter’s villein status or to his……

(a) To offer surety (for sb. that he will not do sth.), guarantee;—also refl.; also, ?offer security or certainty [2nd quot.] (b) to give (sth.) as a pledge or as surety; also, pay (a ransom,……

(a) To protect (sb.), shield, keep safe (b) law to provide guarantee of title to property [quots. 1st & c1460 last]; guarantee (to sb.) the right to possess (sth.); guarantee (to sb., a church) the……

(a) To give notice of some existing circumstance or a past or coincident event, make something known (b) to inform (sb., sb. of sth.), notify, advise; (c) to announce (sth. to sb.), proclaim,……

Uncultivated or uninhabited land; wilderness, desert; also, a tract of uncultivated, barren, or desolate land; ?also, a parcel of land left fallow or untended [quot. a1467]. …

Law (a) Property, including livestock, app. ownerless and hence subject to seizure and forfeiture, abandoned goods; weif and strai (b) a piece of such property, a stray domestic animal; weifs and……