umpirage
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umpirage (countable and uncountable, plural umpirages)
- (law, archaic) The office (or term of office) of an umpire
- 1838, John Frederick Archbold, The practice of country attornies and their agents, in the courts of law at Westminster:
- When the umpire enters upon his umpirage, he may reexamine the witnesses; but it has been holden not to be objectionable, for the umpire to receive the evidence from the arbitrators, unless the parties require him to do otherwise.