ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Besaiel

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /bɪˈseɪ.əl/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Besaiel is a noun meaning (law, obsolete) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out.

Meaning

(law, obsolete) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A great-grandfather.

Example Sentences

In a Writ of Besayle he shall not have the View.
Herry Percy, knyght, Besaile to the said then Erle […]

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