BESAIEL; BESAILE; BESAYLE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

2.
n.

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. This is now abolished. Blackstone.


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