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Webster 1913 Edition
Besayle
{
, Be-saiel′
,Be-saile′
,Be-sayle′
}Noun.
[OF.
beseel
, F. bisaïeul
, fr. L. bis
twice + LL. avolus
, dim. of L. avus
grandfather.] 1.
A great-grandfather.
[Obs.]
2.
(Law)
A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.
Blackstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Besayle
BESA'YLE
,Noun.
If the abatement happened on the death of one's grandfather or grandmother, a writ of ayle lieth; if on the death of the great grandfather, then a writ of besayle; but if it mounts one degree higher, to the tresayle, or grandfather's grandfather, &c.,the writ is called a writ of cosinage, or de consanguineo.
Definition 2024
besayle
besayle
English
Noun
besayle (plural besayles)
- Alternative form of besaiel
- 1771, Blackstone, William, Sir, “Of Injuries to Real Property, and First of Dispossession, or Ouster of the Freehold”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 3, page 186:
- If the abatement happened on the death of one's grandfather or grandmother, then an assise of mort d' ancestor no longer lies, bur a writ of ayle or de avo; if on the death of the great grandfather or great grandmother, then a writ of besayle or de proavo; but if it mounts one degree higher, to the trefayle or grandfather's grandfather, or if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation, other than those before-mentioned, the writ is called a writ of cosinage, or de consanguineo.
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