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withernam Law. Now Hist.|ˈwɪðənɑːm|
Also 4–6 wyther-, (4 -ir-), 5–6 wether-, wider-, 4–7 -name.
[Law-French (in Britton wythernam), presumably a. ON. viðrnám recorded only in the sense ‘resistance’ (but cf. early Da. vedernam pledge), f. viðr- wither-1 + nám naam. The etymological meaning is ‘reprisal’.]
In an action of replevin, the reprisal of other goods in lieu of those taken by a first distress and eloigned; also, the writ (called capias in withernam) commanding the sheriff to take the reprisal.
1292Britton i. xxviii. §3 Si les bestes soint..chacez hors del counté, ou si le baillif autre desturbaunce troeffe, tauntost face prendre des bestes del deforceour a la double value cum wythernam. 1534Returna breuium 418 De returno in replegiare lou le pleintyfe auera vne withernam. 1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §29 The Shirief shall have..for the making of Replegias twelvepence, and withernam upon the same twelve pence. 1543tr. Act 13 Edw. I, c. 2 [A] courte, hauynge power to holde pleas of wythernam. 1579Expos. Terms Law 72 b, The party vpon y⊇ returne of the sherife shall haue a writte of Withernam, directed to the Sherif, that he take as many of hys beastes..tyll yt hee hath made deliuerance of y⊇ first distres. 1599Life of Sir T. More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 102 Whether chattell taken [in] withername may be replevied. 1618J. Wilkinson Treat. Off. Coroners ii. 153 b, Then the plaintife may have a Withernam, which must be made in this maner. a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 354 In a repleuin in the Countie Court,..if the goods be conueyed away, so as at the Tenants suite they cannot be restored,..processe of withernam lyeth. 1656tr. Noy's Rep. 50 A Withernam was awarded, and executed, and now comes the Plaintiff and prays to declare, and prays a deliverance of the Withernam. 1767Blackstone Comm. III. ix. 149 Goods taken in withernam cannot be replevied, till the original distress is forthcoming.
b. A process of distress (or arrest) for debt, formerly current in the Cinque Ports (and other towns).
1314–15Cal. Letter-bks. Lond. E. (1903) 42 [The sum of 40s. which had been taken by way of] Withernam [from] Thomas de Grantham de Dyvelyn. 1352Borough Customs (Selden Soc.) I. 122 Al sute du dit playntif, ci deit le bailif par assignement des jurés prendre une Wythirname sur qicomque vienge de la dite vile ou cité. 1461–83Ibid. I. 125 Bayle and jurates may take a wythername agaynst all his tenauntes. 1529Ibid. I. 125 Yf eny man have take toll or custum of eny freman of Cawnterbery, he that ys grevid may have a widername at Caunterbury therfore. 1574Acts Privy Council (N.S.) VIII. 313 A letter to the Mayour of Dover..touching complaintes made against him by Fleminges for the arrest made by widernams. 1576Ibid. IX. 215 Whereas Andrew Muller..of Hamboroughe was arrested at Dover by a writt of withernam.
c. Reprisals taken at sea by letters of marque.
1714J. Fortescue-Aland Pref. Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. 50 This Word Withernam also signifies Reprisals taken at Sea, by Letters of Mart-ships. |