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dilatorie (1260)
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dilatorie (1260)

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dilatoire,  dilatore,  dilatori  
  FEW:  dilatio *3,79b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  dilatoire 9,383b TL: dilatoire 2,1929 DEAF:  dilater (dilater)  DMF:  dilatoire  TLF:  dilatoire  OED:  dilatory adj. 1, n.  MED:  dilatorie adj. 2  DMLBS:  dilatorius 665a

a.

1lawdilatory, dealing with secondary matters (liable to delay but not terminate an action): 
( 1260; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  excepcion [...] dilatorie ne paremptorie ne mixte  Brev Plac 191
( c.1290 )  excepcions dilatories tochaunz la persone  Fet assaver 166
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  excepcions dilatories, sicum sount excepciouns pur bref abatre, excepciouns al juge et a la persone le pleyntif  BRITT i 314
( 1317 )  par vostre plee ceo qe dust estre dylatori si est peremptore  YBB Ed II xxii 24
2temporizing: 
( 1361-62 )  le Mair nous retourna un lettre dilatorie  ROUGH 156

s.

1lawdilatory exception: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  L’ordre de excepper est itel qe la peremptoire est el plus haut degree. Car de la dilatoire poet l’em aver recours a la peremptoire, e nient le revers  Mir Just 91
♦lawdilatory plea: 
( 1339 )  en un dilatorie le tenant poet pleder en avys de court pluis avant q’en un peremptorie  YBB 13-14 Ed III 37
( 1347-48 )  [ ...] sour qi ils appelerent le dit jugement, com homme poet illeqe faire par usage de pays sur chequn dilatorie  Rot Parl1 ii 219
2lawpoint of secondary importance: 
( 1301-08 )  Il ne apend point de aver regard sur checun dilatore, que issint serreit la Curt trop encumbré. E pur ceo dites a un foize touz voz dilatories  Prof Lawyer 780
( 1310 )  l’assise ne passa poynt sur le gros de nostre actioun, eynz sur le dilatorie  YBB Ed II iv 35
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