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avowry
avowry (əˈvaʊrɪ) Forms: 4 avoerie, 4–7 auowrie, avowrie, 5–6 -rye, 5–7 auowry, advowry, 6 advoury, -uowry(e, 6–7 avourie, -ry, 5– avowry. aphet. 4–5 vory. [a. OF. avoerie, avouerie, avourie, avorie, AF. avowerie, f. avoueur, OF. avoeor, n. of agent f. avouer (see avow v.1 and -ry); the office of the...
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Avowry
In law, avowry is where one takes a distress for rent or other thing, and the other sues replevin. shall justify, in his plea, for what cause he took it, and if he took it in his own right, is to show it, and so avow the taking—which is called his avowry
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advowry
† adˈvowry Obs. Forms: 5 advourè, 6 -ie. A variant of the word more commonly spelt avowry. The spelling with ad- was especially common in sense 3, ‘The advowson or patronage of a benefice.’1495 Act 11 Hen. VII, xxxiij, The Amobreshippe of the Countie of Meryonneth with the Reglorshippes and Raglorsh...
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voury
† ˈvoury Obs.—1 [a. OF. vowerie, vouerie ‘jurisdiction of a civil or ecclesiastical patron’ (Godefroy): cf. avowry 1.] (See quot.) The privilege was obtained by a payment made to the Earl for his ‘avowry’ or protection.? c 1600 in Cat. Harl. MS. (1808) II. 395/2 Of a Sanctuary-Way called the Vouryes...
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Cestui que vie Act 1540
The words from "and the avowry" to the end of the Act were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.
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disavowry
† disaˈvowry Obs. [f. disavow v., after avowry and OF. desavouerie, desavowry (in Godef.).] The action of disavowing; disavowal.1588 J. H[arvey] Discoursive Probl. 65 Concerning the generall disauory, and discredit of such speciall matters. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 498 He disclaymeth...
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Baron
And I have read hors de son Barony in a barr to an Avowry for hors de son fee) But also the Judges of the Exchequer have it from antient time fixed on
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avowment
† aˈvowment Obs. [a. OF. avoe-, avouement, f. avouer: see avow v.1 and -ment.] Acknowledgement, avowal. (Cf. also avowry 6.)1581 Lambarde Eiren. ii. v. (1588) 183 Whether any persons doe take others to their Auowment and protection. 1685 Lond. Gaz. No. 2017/3 To make the Avowments of our Faith and o...
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avowed
▪ I. avowed, ppl. a.1 (əˈvaʊd) [f. avow v.1 + -ed.] 1. Acknowledged, owned, plainly declared.1340 [see avowry 4]. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & F. lii. 35 Arms..In harolds books a vowde. 1659 Gentl. Call. (1696) 41 A man of such an avowed brutality. 1793 T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 12 For the avowed pu...
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avour
† aˈvour(e, n.1 Obs. rare. [erroneously for avourie, avowry; if not for OF. avoeor, avoeur, avoueur, of which the proper Eng. form is avower, while the OF. in the first quotation would be avoeresse.] = avowry 2.c 1400 Sowdone Bab. 2390 God and seynte Mary myn avoure! 1868 Stanley Westm. Ab. 158 Roun...
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-ry
-ry, suffix a reduced form of -ery, occurring chiefly after an unstressed syllable ending in d, t, l, n, or sh (the usual type being words of three syllables with the stress on the first), but also in a few cases after stressed vowels or diphthongs. The older examples sometimes represent OF. forms i...
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Lord of the manor
And I have read hors de son Barony in a barr to an Avowry for hors de son fee) But also the Judges of the Exchequer have it from antient time fixed on
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avow
▪ I. avow, v.1 (aˈvaʊ) Forms: 2 auouh(en, 3 awou, 3–7 au- avowe, 5 awowe, 5–7 aduow(e, 6– avow. [a. OF. avoue-r, avoer:—L. advocā-re to call to, call upon; esp. to call in as a defender or patron (cf. advocate): hence, in feudal times, to call upon or own as defender, patron, client, or person in so...
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