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† ˈshortford Law. Obs.
[Appears in med.L. and AF. documents as sortfort, shortford, shartfort, shatford, schotford; of obscure origin.
It is noteworthy that in the Statutum de Gaveleto in London (prob. 13th c.) a tenement forfeited to the lord ‘for default of service’ is said to be designated by a term which appears under the various forms forshard, forshot, forthot, forsshott (the early printed edd. have forschoc, forchoc, forschoke): see Stat. of the Realm (Record ed.) I. 222 and Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 63, 469. Some of these forms look like transpositions of the syllables of shortford, shartfort, etc.; but it is possible that they arose from progressive corruption of A.F. forclot = forclos pa. pple. of forclore to foreclose.]
An ancient process by which the lord could obtain possession of a tenement when the tenant had failed to render the services due, and there were no effects on which a distraint could be levied.
1291in G. Oliver Hist. Exeter (1861) 309 Adjudicatum est ei sortfort. 1335in Izacke Antiq. Exeter (1677) 48 Adjudicatum fuit Decano & Capitulo beati Petri Exoniensis quoddam Tenementum scituatum in vico Australi Civitatis Exoniensis secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis prædictæ & dicitur Shortford. 1419Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 186 Solonc le jugement appelle ‘Shartfort’ [v.r. Shatford (Cowel's Law Dict. 1727)] par custome de la cite suisdite. a1500in G. Oliver Hist. Exeter (1861) 309 note, Schotford, quod gallicè dicitur forclot. 1701Cowel's Interpreter (ed. Kennett) s.v. [cites Izacke]. |