(a) Something done, an act, a deed; accioun of penitence (penaunce), an act of penance; (b) the operation or effect (of heat or fire); the activity or function (of a bodily organ); accioun visif……

Law The procedure of calling upon an accused person to answer to a formal charge, arraignment. …

Law Escrow. …

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

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……

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

Law Connected matters. …

(a) Dissension, discord, conflict, strife; quarreling, brawling; law disputing, controversy; areren, reisen contek, to cause dissension, etc.; driven, holden contek, carry on or engage in a……

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

The complex of courtly ideals; chivalry, chivalrous conduct; also, contextually, one of these ideals, as courtly love, benevolence, kindness, cheerfulness. …

Law An objection strong enough to invalidate a claim. …

(a) Trickery, deceit, treachery; lying; (b) act of deceiving; a deception, stratagem, trick; a lie; (c) an ambush; (d) a fowler's snare or trap; some device to impede the passage of ships. …

(a) Law The defendant in a suit (as opposed to the plaintiff); (b) the challenged party in a trial by combat. …

Law A condition which, if fulfilled, nullifies a contract, an obligation, or a judgment against litigant; also, the document stating such a condition; in defesaunce of, for nullifying (an obligation)……

Law Plaintiff. …

(a) A question; (b) it is no demaunde, there is no question; that is no demaunde, this holde I no demaunde, there is no question about it, there is no doubt about that. …

(a) Departure, going away; (b) a turning away, abandoning, rejection; (c) law a change of plea, change of argument. …

Law A plea or writ for (hearing and) adjudicating a matter in dispute; oyer and determiner. …

(a) Law Relinquishment (of sovereignty, crown, office, etc.); (b) conveyance or transfer (of tithes or tenements) by lease; (c) action of freeing someone from a demand or obligation; also, the……

(a) Law A formal denial of a feudal claim; (b) a renunciation of a claim to feudal tenure. …

Law A formal denial of a feudal claim. …

Interruption (of shining of light). …

Law?One who furnishes surety; ?surety, mainprize. …

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) The act of accusing or indicting a person; indictment or formal accusation; (b) condemnation (as a public nuisance). …

(a) A search, examination, inquiry; (b) law an official investigation, a judicial inquiry (cp. enquest). …

(a) An attempt to learn something, a search, a questioning; (b) law a judicial examination of evidence, an official inquiry or investigation; sitten of enquere, to preside at an official……

Law The official copy or record of a statute or ordinance. …

Law (a) A true copy of an original record, esp. of fines or amercements which have been entered on the rolls of a court to be collected by the bailiff or other authorized officer; (b) fines……

Law (a) The carrying out, putting into effect, or enforcing (of the provisions of a statute, law, will, etc.); execution, enforcement; (b) the execution (of a sentence); the infliction of a penalty or……

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 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. …

Law feme couvert, a married woman; feme sole, an unmarried woman, or a married woman who holds property in her own right. [Not attested in E context until c1600.] …

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

Law Exception, exemption, reservation. …

(a) Hardship, misfortune, distress, trouble; bringen (turnen) to gref, to bring (sb.) into distress; kepen fro gref, preserve (sb.) from harm; (b) physical damage; (c) injury, grievance, wrong, cause……

(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 An offense or illegal act, esp. on the part of a public official. …

(a) Law The failure of a plaintiff to prosecute his claim or to provide sufficient evidence; (b) failure to follow. …

Law (a) A criminal hearing under a commission of oyer and terminer; oyer determiner; on eire of an oyer, on circuit under a commission of oyer and terminer; (b) oyer and terminer (determiner), a……

(a) Law A person who brings formal suit against another in a court of law, plaintiff; one who seeks redress for wrong; (b) a complainer, plaintive person. …

(a) One who formally introduces a royal personage, (b) one who formally presents a letter of petition, a bearer; (c) one who presents or offers up something, a giver; (d) law one who brings a formal……

(a) Observed or recorded evidence supporting a statement, an assertion, accusation, or a claim; a piece of such evidence; maken preve of, to give evidence of (sth.); (b) evidence such as instances……

(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 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……

(a) Law A share or division of property, esp. land, due to a person by inheritance; a portion of inherited property; (b) a portion, share; a part, division, or section on a map or in the sky; also……

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) One who pursues with hostility, a pursuer; (b) one who persecutes, a persecutor; tormentor; enemy; (c) = pursevaunt n.; (d) a prosecutor; law one who brings a suit, a plaintiff, petitioner. …

(a) One who seeks (to do sth.), an aspirant; (b) law one who brings suit, a plaintiff; one who presents a petition; also fig. …

(a) The action of pursuing to overtake; a chase; (b) the action of pursuing with hostile intent; don pursuit ayenes, make pursuit after (sb.); maken pursuit on the chase, give chase; (c) the action of……

(a) Foresight; foreknowledge; foresightedness, prudence, wisdom; ben of god purveiaunce, to be prudent; ben of no purveiaunce, be improvident; (b) divine foreknowledge; divine providence or……

Law (a) That which is provided or enacted by a statute, the body or substance of an act; (b) a special provision within an act; clause of purveu, a provisional clause, proviso. …

(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 One who enters into a recognizance. …

(a) Relief from suffering or from the pain of hell; recovery; also, salvation; haven recoverer, to recover from defeat, rally; at no recoverer, having no power or chance to recover from defeat; (b)……

Law (a) A right of ownership (of land, rents, etc.) designated to devolve upon a second party when the right of the first grantee or legatee ceases; a remainder; (b) ?the postponement of a legal……

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

Law A writ of replevin. …

(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) Answering, an answer, a verbal response, rejoinder; an argument, a protest; an argumentative statement in a debate; maken (a) replicacioun, to answer, argue; (b) law an answer to a suit; a reply……

(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) An extension of time for action, deliberation, etc.; a temporary postponement of an action, a decision, judgment, etc., grace period; don in respit, to postpone (sth.), put off; putten in respit……

Law: (a) The return of an estate to the grantor or his heir upon the expiration of the grant; interesse (right, etc.) of reversioun; (b) an estate created by reversion, a reversionary interest; also……

(a) A moral or spiritual state or condition; stat of dampnacioun (grace, right, etc.); stat of penaunce (teres), a state of repentance; (b) a mental state, frame of mind; (c) the physical state or……

(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……

Law Spoliation of land, destruction of parts of a tenement, etc.; strepe and (or) waste. …

(a) Hardship, adversity, danger; (b) don stres, to cause harm; also, inflict harm on (sb.), oppress; devastate (a country); don stres to, don unto stres, inflict harm or injury on (sb.); maken stres……

Law (a) A true copy of an original record; ?also, a book or collection of such copies; (b) a fine, an amercement, or a tax payment. …

Law Destruction or spoliation of an inheritance. …

(a) Obedience, humility, submissiveness; also, self-abasement [quot. c1449]; (b) chiefly law submitting to the authority of another in providing a ruling; also, an agreement to abide by the ruling of……

(a) The action of prompting or urging; incitement; also, a proposal, suggestion; also [quot. c1390], a reason, motive; -- with prob. allusion to the phrase fals suggestioun in sense 2.(a); maken……

(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 The fact or condition of one person outliving another, survivorship. …

(a) A set of garments or liturgical vestments meant to be worn together, an ensemble; a livery; sute (of) vestementes, a set of vestments; of his sute, dressed like him; withouten min sute……

(a) A limit of space or capacity; withouten ani terme, limitless, bottomless;—used fig.; (b) a temporal limit, limit of a span of time; med. the limit of a period of time in which a morbid condition……

Law In phrase: oyer and terminer, a judicial procedure regulated by commissioners appointed by the king, for determining guilt and assessing punishment or damages for various crimes under special……

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

(a) Disobedience to God's law, sin; wickedness, sinfulness; a breach of divine precepts, a sin; also, Adam's sin, the Fall; also, a straying [quots. a1475(?a1430); cp. sense (d)]; (b) disobedience to……

(a) A movement from one place to another; the transplanting of a sapling; a transmigration of a soul; (b) the transfer of a bishop to a different see; also, the relocation of a see; (c) the……

Disloyalty, faithlessness, culpable indifference to sacred obligations or allegiance, variously manifested as: (a) treachery to one's king, country, sworn ally, etc., esp. contriving the defeat or……

Law A cache of objects of significant value found hidden and unclaimed by an owner [cp. tresour n. 1.(c)]. …

(a) A store of riches, valuable objects, accumulated wealth, spoils, etc. laid up for preservation or safekeeping, a hoard; a quantity of money, precious metals, or stones, etc.; coll. coins, jewels……

(a) Transgression or violation of civil law, a set of regulations, etc. punishable by civil authorities, officers of an organization, etc., criminal misconduct, illegal activity; wrongful behavior……

(a) Law An examination before a court or a trial by a jury, according to the law of the realm; (b) a trial by arms; (c) a test. …

(a) The act of using or employing something; the fact of being used or employed; use, employment; also, the right to the use (of sth.) [last quot.]; the capacity for use (of reason) [quot. ?a1475]……

(a) A tradition which has the force of statutory law or becomes statutory law, customary law (b) law the advantage of a particular person or persons with respect to the profit or benefit derived from……

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,……

(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……

Law Formal corroboration by sworn testimony, deposition. …

(a) A visual perception (of sth.); also, one’s vision [1st quot.]; in veu, in full view (b) a gaze; flien to the veu, of a hawk: to fly at a quarry which she herself has sighted; (c) mental and……

(a) Physical suffering or affliction; also, a disturbance in a part of the body [1st quot.] (b) the act of inflicting trouble on others; trouble, tribulation; ?also, weariness [quot. a1500(?a1450)];……

(a) Vitality, energy, strength; also, vital essence (b) physical strength; energy in an activity; also, military force; martial prowess; energy or zeal in battle;—also pl.; (c) determination,……

(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……

Law (a) A person summoned to court to warrant or defend a title to goods or property; (b) vouche garant, ?the practice of summoning a person to provide guarantee of title, or an instance of it. …

(a) One who guards or defends, a protector;—also used of God; also, a champion; drauen to warant, to resort to or betake oneself (to sb. or Christ) as a protector or for protection;—also refl. (b)……