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jeofail, n.|ˈdʒɛfeɪl|
Also 6 ieo-, (yeo-), ioe-, ieoyfaile, ieofall.
[AngloFr. jeo fail, jo faill, I am at fault, I mistake.]
Law. A mistake or oversight in pleading or other legal proceeding; also, an acknowledgement of such error. Obs. exc. Hist.
1541Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 30 Thissues haue ben misioyned and a Ieofall [orig. draft Yeofaile]. Ibid., Any myspleading lacke of colour insufficient pleading or ieofaile notwithstanding. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 465 The Writ of Error..was heretofore vsuall to prolong suits in Law, before the Statute of Ieofaile was made, meaning in good French I'ay failly. 1624Act 21 Jas. I, c. 13 An Act for the further reformation of Jeofails. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. xxv. 407 Mistakes are also effectually helped by the statutes of amendment and jeofails: so called, because when a pleader perceives any slip in the form of his proceedings, and acknowledges such error (jeo faile) he is at liberty by those statutes to amend it. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 137 Here we see—alas!—a jeofail: a jeofail in the shape of a misrecital. 1879Act 42–3 Vict. c. 59 Sched. ii, 32 Hen. VIII. c. 30 Mispleading Jeofayles, &c. [1883Act 46–7 Vict. c. 49 §4 The enactments mentioned in Part II of the schedule to the Civil Procedure Acts, Repeal Act, 1879, are hereby repealed.]
†b. transf. and fig. A mistake or error generally. (In first quot. Failure, discomfiture.) ? Obs.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 82 Pouertee brought that ioye to ioefaile. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. xi. 111 The Acts of Dioclesian Maxim..You doe as good as passe by..which is greater Jeofaile then our Maximilian. 1644J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumph. (1645) 22, I conceive it to be a jeofaile in Theologie, a mistake in stead of a truth. 1828Edin. Rev. XLVIII. 511 These flaws and jeofails are not nature's doings, but our own.
Hence † ˈjeofail v. intr., to fail to meet an obligation. Obs. rare—1.
1599Hayward 1st Pt. Hen. IV, 27 The Lords..sent him word, that if hee did ieofaile with them, and not come according to appointment, they would chuse another King. |