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单词 writ of cousinage
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writ of cousinage
3. Law. A right to land based on one's status as next of kin. Chiefly in writ of cosinage [after Anglo-Norman bref de cosinage (late 13th cent.)] (occasionally also writ of cousinage) : an action by a party based on the seisin of a person to whom that party is next of kin, for the recovery of land of which that party had been dispossessed. Cf. cousin n. 4. Now historical.Writs of cosinage were typically issued only in cases where the next of kin was a collateral relative, or a lineal descendant more remote than a great-grandchild; cf. writ of aiel n. at aiel n. 2, writ of besaile at besaiel n. b.
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writ of cosinagec1523
c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. B.5 Cosynage is a writ & it lyeth where my gret graund fader, my graundfadrs graundfader or other Cosyn dyeth seisyd in fee symple & a straunger abatith that is to sey enterith in to the landis than I shall haue agaynste hym thys wryt.
1598 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions (1675) 424 Where he had view before in a Writ of Cozenage.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 157 a If there be a Challenge for Cosinage, he that taketh the Challenge must shew how the Juror is Cousin.
1865 F. M. Nichols tr. Britton II. 61 Nor can the grandson..proceed by writ of Cosinage in the lifetime of the daughter.
1964 Eng. Hist. Rev. 79 543 A new writ Praecipe (the writ of Cosinage) was introduced in 1237.
2007 Law & Hist. Rev. 25 538 Royal officials entertained the idea that the writs of entry should expand as mort d'ancestor itself expanded with the writs of cosinage.
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