allegger1 (c.1260)
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allegger1 (c.1260)

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[ FEW: 24,328a allegare; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 8,73c aleguer; TL: 1,279 aleguer; DEAF:  aleguer; DMF:  alléguer; TLF:  alléguer; OED:  allege v.1; MED:  alleggen v.1; DMLBS: 64c allegare 1 ]
aleger,  alleger,  alegger  

v.a.

1lawto allege, claim: 
( 1295 )  Les avantditz R. e H. vindrent en court e aleggerent ke a tort demaunda il celle dette vers eus  13
( 1328 )  par taunt qe ascun foitz la partie allegge qe les demaundauntz ne doyvent estre responduz sanz le Roi […]  ii 23.95
( 1340 )  Le tenant, quant a parcelle, alleggea jointenance par fet  14 Ed III 7
( 1388 )  nous faceoms protestacioun qe nous ne conisoms pas le seisin ne rienz de ceo q’il ad allegé  12 Rich II 109
2lawto invoke, introduce: 
( 1398 )  facent & paient lour devoirs […] sanz aucune subtilitee ou cavillation alegger a l’encontre  ii 143
♦lawto cite, invoke (facts, as supporting evidence, proof): 
( c.1260; MS: c.1275 )  En prise de avers pot hom aleger: Sire, desicum […]  79
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  en tiel cas ne lour vaudra nule lounge seisine alegger  i 222
( 1314 )  Toud.allegea le cas J.C.  Ed II xviii 25
( 1315 )  en alleggant auncestrie en le dreit  Ed II xvii 153
( 1323 )  ne mie eaunt regarde as evidences qe ount esté monstrez et alleggez einz ces heures en vostre Court  74
( 1389 )  si chartre de mort d’omme soit aleggé devant queconque justicez […]  iii 268
( 1397 )  il prist son theme la parole de Esechiel le Prophete, Rex unus erit omnibus, allegeant sur ce pluseurs auctoritees de Seinte Escripture  iii 347
♦lawto cite, invoke (as protection): 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  si le clerk encoupé de felonie alegge clergie  i 27
3lawto wage (one’s law): 
( 1321 )  il deivent alegger lour lay  Ed II xxvi 55
4lawto repudiate: 
( 1390 )  le quelle J. aleggea, en tant q’ils ne furent mye assertuz de cella par recorde  vii 74

v.n.

1to intercede, plead: 
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  les angeles du ciel […] alegent devant nostre Seygnour  7.48
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