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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 1837
...An adscript feudal serf (see sense B. 1). Also in extended use....
4. adscript, n. and adj. View full entry ?1794
...Of a feudal serf: hereditarily attached to an estate, and transferred with it. Also in fig. context....
5. adscripted, adj. View full entry 1878
...That is or resembles an adscript (adscript2)....
6. adscription, n. View full entry 1822
...Attachment as an adscript serf. Cf. adscript1, adscript2....
7. † adscriptitious, adj. View full entry 1698
...Of, relating to, or characterized by adscription (in various senses); bound by adscription....
8. † 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....
9. 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...
10. allegiance, n. View full entry a1530
...Feudal Law. The position of a king or lord in relation to a vassal; lordship. Also with possessive adjective, as a title of respect. Obs....
11. 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....
12. 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....
13. † aˈmobrage, n. View full entry 1750
...The payment or proceeds of the Amober....
14. † aˈmobreship, n. View full entry 1467-8
...The right or title to receive the Amober....
15. † 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.)...
16. archery, n. View full entry 1691
...A feudal service; (see quot.) Obs....
17. attachment, n. View full entry ?1592
...In Forest Law (see quot.)....
18. attaint, n. View full entry 1577
...Old Law. The conviction of a jury for giving a false verdict; a legal process instituted for reversing a false verdict and convicting the jurors....
19. attaint, v. View full entry 1642
...Old Law. To convict a jury of having given a false verdict; to bring an action to reverse the verdict of a jury as false. Obs....
20. attorn, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. (for refl.) In Feudal Law: To transfer oneself (i.e. one's homage and allegiance) from one lord to another; to yield allegiance, or do homage...
