Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| alimony | an allowance due to a woman from her divorced husband. |
| alimonied | having an ALIMONY. |
| angaria angary | the legal right of a belligerent to seize, use, or destroy the property of a neutral, provided that full compensation is made. |
| bailable | having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties. |
| birthdom birthright | a right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth. |
| champart | the division of the produce of land, the right of the feudal lord |
| cloff | an allowance given on buying certain goods wholesale, of 2lb in every 3cwt, after TARE and TRET have been deducted. |
| commonage | the right of pasturing on a common. |
| copyright | the sole right to reproduce a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; (verb) to secure the copyright of. |
| copyrightable | able to be copyrighted. |
| cornage | a feudal service, being a form of rent fixed by the number of horned cattle. |
| corody corrody | an allowance; a pension; originally the right of the lord to claim free lodging from the vassal. |
| corvee | labor exacted in lieu of taxes by public authorities especially for highway construction or repair. |
| coshery | the ancient right of an Irish chiefain to quarter himself on his tenants. [Irish coisir, feast]. |
| cuddy | the right of a lord to entertainment from his tenant. |
| curtesy | the lifetime right of a husband to a deceased wife's property. |
| discommon | to deprive of the right of common. |
| droit | a legal right. |
| easement | the right to use something (especially land) not one's own or to prevent its owner from making an inconvenient use of it. |
| estover | a common right to collect firewood. |
| faldage | the right of the lord of a manor to graze a tenant's sheep in folds on his land, in order to manure it. |
| farren | a right of common. |
| fealty | the vassal's obligation of loyalty to his feudal lord. |
| feasance | the execution of a condition, obligation, feudal service, etc. |
| flotsam | goods lost by shipwreck and found floating on the sea. |
| franchise | the right to vote; (verb) to grant a franchise to. |
| frankpledge | a system of sureties under Old English law by which each adult member of a tithing was held responsible for the good conduct of the others. |
| imprescriptible | inalienable. |
| inalienable | incapable of being withdrawn, surrendered, or transferred > INALIENABLY. |
| infangthief | the right of taking and fining a thief within the boundaries of one's own jurisdiction > INFANGTHIEFS. Cf. OUTFANGTHIEF. |
| isonomic | the same, or equal, in law or right. |
| isonomous | having equal rights or privileges. |
| isonomy | equality of people before the law. |
| iure jure | by right or law. |
| jural | pertaining to natural or positive right > JURALLY. |
| jus | a law or legal right > JURA. |
| keelage | the right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port. |
| lien | a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt due by that person is discharged. |
| lienable | that can be subjected to LIEN. |
| maritage | the right of a feudal lord to arrange marriages of vassals. |
| merchet | a fine paid to a lord for the marriage of a daughter. |
| novation | the substitution of a new obligation for an existing one. |
| novate | to substitute a new obligation for an existing one. |
| novodamus | in Scots law, a charter or single document containing a clause by which certain rights, privileges etc. are granted anew; the clause itself > NOVODAMUSES. |
| obligant | in Scots law, one who binds himself or herself to another to pay or perform something. |
| outfangthief | the right of judging and fining thieves pursued and brought back from outside one's own jurisdiction > OUTFANGTHIEVES. [Note: INFANGTHIEFS but OUTFANGTHIEVES]. |
| overslaugh | exemption from duty in turn when otherwise employed. |
| owelty | equality. |
| palimony | alimony demanded by one partner when the pair have been cohabiting. |
| pannage | the right to pasture swine. |
| patrial | pertaining to one's native land; (noun) one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK. |
| patrialise patrialize | to make PATRIAL, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK. |
| patriality | the condition of being a PATRIAL. |
| piscary | fishing rights; fishery. |
| postliminium postliminy | the right by which persons and property seized in war are restored to former status on recovery. The pl. of POSTLIMINIUM is POSTLIMINIA. |
| recognisance recognizance | a legal obligation entered into before a magistrate to do, or not to do, some particular act. |
| reddendo | in Scots law, service to be rendered or money to be paid by a vassal > REDDENDOS. |
| soc | the right of holding a local court. |
| sorehon | an ancient Irish exaction of free accommodation by a lord of a tenant. |
| stallage | the right of erecting a stall in fairs; rent paid for a stall. |
| suffrage | the right of voting, franchise. |
| tare | the weight of a vessel, wrapping or container, which subtracted from the gross weight gives the net weight; an allowance made for this; (verb) to allow for this. |
| tret | (Hist.) an allowance to purchasers of 4lb on every 104 lb for waste. |
| turbary | the right to take peat from another's ground. |
| usager | a person who has the USUFRUCT of something. |
| usufruct | the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another; (verb) to exercise this right. |
| vert | in forest law, every green plant having leaves that may serve as a cover for deer; the right to cut this; (verb) (coll.) to become a convert. |
| wayleave | permission to pass over another's ground. |