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champart (c.1292)

champart (c.1292)

champain;  chaumpart,  chaumpert,  chaumperth  
  FEW:  campus 2/i,157a Gdf: GdfC:  champart 9,34b TL: champart 2,200 DEAF:  champ  DMF:  champart  TLF:  champart  OED:  champart n.  MED: DMLBS:

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lawchampart (share of property)
( 1302 )  come ele eut priis trente e cink garbes de totes manieres de blé du champard le Roi  Rot Parl1 i 154
( 1307 )  pernaunt chaumpart des dettes notre dit pere par les faire paer a la forz (l. foiz) la tierce partie, a la fortz (l. foitz) la quarte partie  LANGETON 139.31
( 1310 )  la ou homme siwe plé par (l. pur) chaumpart aver de la terre  YBB Ed II iii 193
a, au champart
lawupon terms of divided enjoyment
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  (if the owner of a tree takes another person’s bees in his tree) il iert tenuz de les rendre, ou de garder les a chaumpart pur la moyté des issues  BRITT i 215
( 1314-15 )  ne lit (=is permitted) a nul ministre le Roi ne a autre d’emprendre, aver ne meyntenir autri plee au chaumpart  Rot Parl1 i 304
( 1393-94 )  R. de S. ad purchacé les ditz manoirs […] a chaumpart […] encontre l’estatut  Rot Parl1 iii 310
lawby champerty (illegal assistance to one party in a dispute in return for a share in any profits)
( 1292 )  qe nul […] ne meynteigne nul plai en nostre curt, ne en autre, a chaumpart  Lib Cust 203
( 1314-15 )  ne lit a nul ministre le Roi […] d’enprendre, aver ne meyntenir autri plee au chaumpart  Rot Parl1 i 304

See also:

champartie 
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