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1. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
2. † achete, n. View full entry a1325
...The reversion of property to a lord on the owner's dying without legal heirs; escheat; (also) the right to claim such escheated property. Cf. achete...
3. adscript, n. and adj. View full entry 1636
...Geom. A circumscribed or inscribed line, esp. a tangent of a curve. Now rare and hist....
4. adscripted, adj. View full entry 1878
...That is or resembles an adscript (adscript2)....
5. adscription, n. View full entry 1604
...Assigning or crediting; ascription, attribution. Now rare....
6. † adscriptitious, adj. View full entry 1698
...Of, relating to, or characterized by adscription (in various senses); bound by adscription....
7. † agild, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a dead person: without payment of compensation or wergild (see wergild), unpaid for. Esp. in to lie agild....
8. allegiance, n. View full entry a1425
...Originally: (Feudal Law) the duty, homage, etc., owed by a vassal or liege man (liege man) to the king or lord from whom he holds land; fealty (now...
9. allod, n. View full entry 1836
...Land held by allodial tenure (see allodial1); tenure of, or title to, such land. In later use freq. as in allod....
10. aˈmober | aˈmobr | aˈmobyr, n. View full entry 1728
...Technical term in the Welsh Laws for the ‘maiden-fee’ formerly payable to a lord on the marriage of a maid of his manor....
11. † aˈmobrage, n. View full entry 1750
...The payment or proceeds of the Amober....
12. † aˈmobreship, n. View full entry 1467-8
...The right or title to receive the Amober....
13. † ˈangild, n. View full entry a940
...In Old English law, payment in composition or atonement for njury. (Erroneously taken by later writers as meaning ‘single payment,’ as if Old English were ángild.)...
14. archery, n. View full entry a1400
...The practice or art of shooting with bow and arrow; skill as an archer. Also fig....
15. attachment, n. View full entry 1447-8
...The action of apprehending (a person) and placing him under the control of a court of law; now, especially used of arrest for contempt of court. (With subjective or objective genitive: cf....
16. attaint, n. View full entry ?1523
...The act of touching or hitting; spec. a ‘hit’ in tilting. arch....
17. attaint, v. View full entry a1400
...To touch, get at with a blow, to hit in tilting; = attaini. Obs....
18. attorn, v. View full entry 1458
...trans. To turn over to another; to assign, transfer (goods, tenants' service, allegiance, etc.)....
19. † ˈavenage, n. View full entry 1594
...A payment in oats made to a landlord or feudal superior....
20. aver-, comb. form View full entry 1253-1378
...? corn paid as a feudal due or in lieu of service....
