esplees

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noun

The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.

OriginLatin expletia ← Old French espleit →
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Meanings

nounesplees pl (plural only)
  1. UKobsoletepluralplural onlylawThe full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.

    in a writ of Eſchete, in a writ of right ſur diſclaimer, and ſuch like, which are founded vpon the ſeigniory, and not vpon any ſeiſin of the land it ſelfe, no eſplees ſhall be alledged

    1627, Henry Finch, Lavv: Or, A Discovrse Thereof, in Foure Bookes

Origin

  1. Old Frenchespleit
  2. Latinexpletia
  3. Englishesplees

From Latin expletia, Old French espleit. Compare exploit.

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