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Noun- The action of taking by way of reprisal.

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Usage examples (10)
  • English fashion of making oath and not after the Norman fashion by wager of battle; their goods were to be free of all manner of customs, toll, passage and lestage; their...
  • X, de gone; fo here, if after the withernam he plead non cepit,
  • And thrs prevents the mifchicf of the 'withernam againft the plaintiff.
  • Whether the plaintiff was demandable upon the withernam f Alfo there was a former queftion, Whether he might be bailed upon the habeas corpus before the return of the...
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