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1. abatement, n.1 View full entry ?a1400
...The action of abate; wrongful occupation of land or property, usurpation; an instance of this. Freq. in abatement of freehold....
2. adjourn, v. View full entry ?a1400
...trans....
3. almoign, n. View full entry ?a1400
...= frankalmoign Sometimes in the fuller form free almoign (formerly also, in Scots and northern English, in the plural form free almons). Cf. free alms...
4. appeal, v. View full entry 1330
...To call (one) to answer before a tribunal; in Law: To accuse of a crime which the accuser undertakes to prove. spec....
5. array, n. View full entry c1330
...Arrangement in line or ranks, esp. martial order. Phrases: in battle array, out of array (obs.)....
6. assembly, n. View full entry 1330
...Gathering together, meeting; the state of being collected or gathered; = assemblage1....
7. † aˈtry, v. View full entry 1330
...trans. To try, as a judge....
8. attach, v. View full entry 1330
...Law. To secure for legal jurisdiction and disposal, to place or take under the control of a court; to arrest or seize by authority of a writ of attachment:...
9. attain, v. View full entry 1330
...To get at with a blow, strike, hit; = attaint1. Obs....
10. † aˈttaint, adj. View full entry 1303
...Convicted, attainted. Used orig. as pa. pple. of attain, subseq. of attaint; also as adj....
11. avowry, n. View full entry 1330
...The function of an avoué, advowee, advocate, or patron; patronage, protection. Obs....
12. bargain, n.1 View full entry 1330
...Discussion between two parties of the terms on which one is to give or do something to or for the other; chaffering; bargaining. Obs....
13. bequest, n. View full entry c1300
...The act of bequeathing; transference or bestowal by will, or by a similar procedure....
14. bondage, n. View full entry 1330
...The tenure of a bonde or bond after the Norman Conquest; tenure in villenage; the service rendered by a bonde. Obs....
15. brief, n.1 View full entry 1330
...A writing issued by official or legal authority; a royal letter or mandate; a writ, a summons. (Translating Latin breve and Anglo-Norman French bref in various legal meanings.)...
16. ˈbuggery, n. and adj. View full entry 1330
...Abominable heresy. Obs....
17. by-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...A Middle English variant spelling of the prefix bi-, be-, under which see most of the words, as, under be-, bycause, bydene,...
18. certify, v. View full entry 1330
...trans. To make (a thing) certain; to guarantee as certain, attest in an authoritative manner; to give certain information of. (Often with clause as object.)...
19. code, n.1 View full entry 1303
...Roman Law. One of the various systematic collections of statutes made by later emperors, as the code of Theodosius, code of Justinian; spec. the latter....
20. concealment, n. View full entry c1330
...The concealing or keeping secret (of any information). In Law, The intentional suppression of truth or fact known, to the injury or prejudice of another; concealment of birth:...
