Essoin
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title:
Essoin
text:
In old English law, an essoin is an excuse for nonappearance in court. Essoining is the seeking of the same. The person sent to deliver the excuse to the court is an essoiner or essoineur. There were several kinds of essoins in common law in the Middle Ages:
- An essoin de malo lecti, the "excuse of the bed of sickness", was an excuse that the person was too ill to get out of bed, and was generally only invoked in civil actions involving real property. This required that the invoker be observe
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Excuse for not appearing in court
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essoin
date created:
2004-04-22T17:24:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T20:48:09Z
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