lawoutfangthief, the right of a lord to claim for trial a tenant who has committed an offence outside the boundaries of his territory (and to keep any forfeited properties):
(
1237;
MS: 1670
)
eient et tiennent leur terres ové solc et salc et thol et them, et infangthef et outfangthef, en boys, en pleyns, en vies, en soutes, en prez et pastures [...]
Three Chronicles 22.95
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
la fraunchise de outfangenthef, ceo est a dire qe eux eynt les juises de lour gentz et de lour tenauntz, ou q'il soint pris hors de lour feez, jugez a pendre, qe il les pusent aprés jugement rendu prendre et remener en lour franchise et fere les pendre illucs sur lour fourches demeyne
BRITT i 228-29
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
tuz les feals le roi qi approprirent a eus juresdiction: [...] infangentheif, utfangenthef, wrec, weif, estrai [...]
Mir Just 17
(
1313-14
)
utfangenthief n'est autre fors tantsoulement d'avoir juyse de vostre resteaunt
(l. resceaunt), atteint de felonie dehors vostre fraunchise
YBB Ed II viii 194
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utfangenthef (1237)