| 单词 | to wage one's law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wage one's (or the) law b. to wage one's (or the) law (Anglo-Norman gager la ley, Law Latin vadiare legem): (a) to defend an action by ‘wager of law’ (see wager n.2 5). (b) In popular use: to go to law (cf. 10). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > go to law or litigate [verb (intransitive)] pursue1389 suea1422 pleada1425 proceed1425 pleac1450 to wage one's (or the) law1455 to go to (the) law?a1513 to put at ——1534 to prosecute the law against (also upon)1535 law?a1550 to follow a suit1571 prosecute1611 to go to suit1690 litigate1726 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > clearing oneself > clear oneself [verb (intransitive)] > defend by wager of law to wage one's (or the) law1455 (a) (b)1529 in M. A. E. Wood Lett. Royal & Illustrious Ladies (1846) II. 51 If so be there be no way..to obtain it, but only by the common law..I am in that poverty I am not able to wage any law with him.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 78 Oft tymys the unjust cause prevaylyth in so much as the one party ys not peraventur so abul as the other to wage hys law.1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. Hvj And in case that at the lenght we haue sentence on our side, yet..we shal, for the most parte, spende more mony in waginge of the law, than we shall gayne by the sentence.1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde (1872) B ij Or else to worke their neighbors woe, by waging sutes at Lawe.1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 325 I wanted money to be able to draw out my thread to it's length, and to wage Law with them.1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. i. 117 in Wks. II I am not able to wage Law with him, Yet must maintaine the thing, as my owne right.1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 326/2 All ye lawes aforesaid so waged and doon. 1456 J. Gresham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 164 Gunnore hath waged his lawe of þat he hadde his day to wage it of, &c. 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 1 §1 In which sute..the Defendaunt or Defendauntes shall nat be admytted to wage ther Lawe. ?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student xviii. f. xxxix If the defendaunt wage his lawe in an accion of det brought vpon a trewe dette. 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) 138 b Ley gager. Wager of lawe, is when an action is brought agaynst one without especialtye shewed or other matter of recorde,..then the defendaunt may wage his lawe, that is to say, sweare vppon a booke, and certaine persons with him, that he oweth nothing to the plaintife [etc.]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Venir à la loy, to be receiued, or admitted, vnto the waging of his Law. 1716 W. Hawkins Pleas Crown (1726) ii. x. 61 The Defendant shall not be suffered to wage his Law in any such Action. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxii. 345 It is only in actions of debt upon simple contract, or for an amercement in actions of detinue, and of account, where the debt may have been paid, the goods restored, or the account ballanced, without any evidence of either; it is only in these actions, I say, that the defendant is admitted to wage his law: so that wager of law lieth not, when [etc.]. 1824 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 2 538 (margin) Where, in debt on simple contract, the defendant waged his law, the Court refused to assign the number of compurgators with whom he should come to perfect his law. < as lemmas |
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