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

Law Escrow. …

(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. …

(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)……

(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) 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……

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

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) 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……

(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 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) 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)……

(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……