Latin: In the civil law.
To free or set free; to liberate; to give one his liberty. Calvin.
In old English law. To deliver, transfer, or hand over. Applied to writs, panels of jurors, etc. Bract fols. 116, 1766.
Liberata peonnia non liberat offerentem. Co. Litt 207. Money being restored does not set free the party ottering.