In English law. An obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight’s service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land, and obtained the ward of the body. Iteg Orig. 101.
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In English law. An obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight’s service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land, and obtained the ward of the body. Iteg Orig. 101.
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