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noun - an excuse
ESSOIN - 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 ...
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Sep 30 2018 The Times - Specialist |
Jul 31 2013 The Telegraph - Toughie |
Jun 3 2009 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
Nov 8 2003 The Times - Concise |
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To excuse for failure to appear in court. |
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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 observed in bed by a commission of four knights. * An essoin de ultra mare, the "excuse of being overseas" (literally "beyond the sea"), was an excuse that the person was abroad. The only resultant delay to litigation permissible for this excuse was enough time for word to be sent to the person and for them to return to England ("forty days and one ebb and one flood" being a conventional formula), and the excuse could only be invoked once, at the start of litigation. * An essoin de servicio (or per servitiu |