inlaw

See also: in-law and -in-law

English edit

From Middle English inlawen, inlaghen, from Old English inlagian, ġeinlagian (“to restore to the protection of the law, inlaw”), equivalent to in- +‎ law.

inlaw (third-person singular simple present inlaws, present participle inlawing, simple past and past participle inlawed)

(UK, law, historical, transitive) To clear of outlawry or attainder, to return to the protection of the law^[1]
- 1911, Charles William Chadwick Oman, "English History", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. IX, p. 497:
  The king, indignant that an attempt should be made to exempt the vast ecclesiastical lands from taxation at a time of national crisis, sequestrated the estates of the see of Canterbury, and copied John’s conduct in 1208 by outlawing the whole body of the clergy. Winchelsea in return excommunicated all those who refused to recognize the authority of the pope’s bull... Harassed by these domestic troubles, the king could not carry out his intention of sailing for Flanders in the spring, and spent the greater part of the campaigning season in wrangles with his subjects. He was obliged to come to a compromise. If the clergy would give him a voluntary gift, which was in no way to be considered a tax, he agreed to inlaw them.

From Middle English inlaghe, inlage, from the verb (see above).

inlaw (plural inlaws)

See in-law.

inlaw (plural inlaws)

^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “INLAW”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volumes (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.