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WITHERNAM Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of WITHERNAM is the action of taking by way of reprisal : a second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods taken by a first ...
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withername - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
withername (uncountable). (law) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; ...
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Withernam - Webster's 1828 Dictionary
WITHERNAM, noun In withernam in law, a second or reciprocal distress, in lieu of a first distress which has been eloigned; reprisal.
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withernam
withernam Law. Now Hist. (ˈwɪðənɑːm) Also 4–6 wyther-, (4 -ir-), 5–6 wether-, wider-, 4–7 -name. [Law-French (in Britton wythernam), presumably a. ON. viðrnám recorded only in the sense ‘resistance’ (but cf. early Da. vedernam pledge), f. viðr- wither-1 + nám naam. The etymological meaning is ‘repri...
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withernam, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
OED's earliest evidence for withernam is from 1292, in Britton (on the laws of England). withernam is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French wythernam ...
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[PDF] Withernam: A Legal Practical Joke of Sir Thomas More
13 The essential feature of withernam was the appeal to lawful authority to take cattle in order to force the defendant to give the plaintiff justice. The ...
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capias
‖ capias Law. (ˈkæpɪæs) [L. capias ‘thou mayest take’.] A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; also called writ of capias. The term Capias includes writs of various kinds; capias ad respondendum, to enforce attendance at court; ca...
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wither-nam and withernam - Middle English Compendium
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses). 1. Law (a) The distraining of a deforcer's personal goods in order to force restoration of that which he has illegally ...
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WITHERNAM - Law Dictionary of Legal Terminology
WITHERNAM, practice. The name of a writ which issues on the return of elon-gata to an alias or pluries writ of replevin, by which the sheriff is commanded to ...
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withernam - definition and meaning - Wordnik
withernam: A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of ...
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CAPIAS IN WITHERNAM - The Law Dictionary
Definition and Citations: A writ, in the nature of a reprisal, which lies for one whose goods or cattle, taken under a distress, are removed from the county ...
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NETBible: withernam - Bible.org
A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; ...
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Crediton
in enforcing their warren and other rights; in 1351 Bishop Grandisson obtained an exemplification of judgments of 1282 declaring that he had pleas of withernam
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wither-
▪ I. wither-1, prefix repr. OE. wiþer-, OFris. wither-, OS. withar-, OHG. widar- (MHG., G. wider-), = the adv. wiþer (see wither a.) used with ns., adjs., and verbs (cf. with- 3), chiefly in the sense (1) against, in opposition or hostility, as in OE. wiþercrist antichrist, wiþercwide contradiction,...
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List of writs
In withernam, where a distress is carried out of the county and an equal amount of the distrainor's goods are to be taken instead.
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