conusee
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
conusee (plural conusees)
- (law, archaic) Synonym of cognizee (“one to whom a fine of land was acknowledged”).
- a. 1726, Lord Chief Baron Gilbert [i.e., Jeffrey Gilbert], The Law of Executions. […], London: […] W. Owen […], published 1763, page 45:
- But where the Lands of any Cofeoffee are omitted, there ſuch Perſon, whoſe Lands are extended, muſt bring his Audita Qeurela againſt the Conuſee, and ſuch Cofeoffee; […]
References edit
- “† conusee | conuzee, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
