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. Reg Orig. 161. .
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. Reg Orig. 161. .