ouster le main
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- he had to pay half - a - year's profits as a fine for suing out his ouster le main , or livery
References[edit]
- “ouster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.