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prisell (1389-90)
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prisell (1389-90)

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prisel,  priselle,  prysell  
  FEW:  prehendere *9,339b Gdf:  prisel 6,413b GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  prendre (prisel)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  prisal n.  / prizal n.2  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  prisaliae 2467c

This relatively common aphetic form of reprisaile appears in Anglo-Norman as a legal term by the end of the fourteenth century. A Latin equivalent is attested in 1421, with the English lexeme witnessed only from the end of the sixteenth century.

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1lawtaking, assuming: 
( c.1420-89 )  Une exception fuit prise al plé pur ceo que le pleintif ad prise cell conclusion [...], quar par le prysell de ceo fuit dit que il ad wayvé tout le matter en ley  Readings ii 179
2lawtaking, seizure of property or possessions: 
( 1389-90 )  Nota qe home poet justify (l. justyfyer) le prysell des avers  YBB 13 Rich II 149
( 1416 )  Touchant la prysell del neyfes  Rot Parl1 iv 104
( 1419 )  Pur prisell dez annuytés  Rot Parl1 iv 122
( c.1420-89 )  le plaintife [...] recovera damages vers le seignior pur le prisel de ses avers  Readings ii 90.71
( 1489-90 )  le pleintiff ad supposé le trans estre fait en priselle d’un chivalle  Exchequer Chamber ii 150.3
3lawholding, bringing before a judge: 
( c.1420-89 )  le prisell d’assise nient obstant, le dit excepcion ne serra deferré ne delayé  Readings i 27.n2
prisell a baron, femme
lawtaking of a husband or wife, marriage: 
( 1466 )  devaunt le prisell al femme  Readings i 42.9
( 1489 )  per le prisell a baron le properté est alé  Readings i 229.15

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See also:

prenance1  prenable  prendre1  prendre2  prendre3  prendre4  prendure  prenement  preneur  prisable1  prise1  prise2  prisee 
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